CHAMPION: Ballance Wins 2019 North Hill Thanksgiving U18 Bonspiel

SKIP
James
Ballance

Third
Ayden
Whittmire

Second
Ethan
Drysdale

Lead
Justin
Murray

James Ballance (Okotokes, AB) won 5-2 over Kyler Kurina (Calgary, AB) in the Final of the North Hill Thanksgiving U18 Bonspiel, held October 10 - 13, 2019 at the North Hill Curling Club in Calgary, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Ballance won 11-4 over Marcus Sawiak (Sherwood Park, AB) in the semifinals

Ballance are currently 1-0 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ballance defeated Wyatt Wright (Cochrane, AB) 7-5. In their next game, Ballance plays Kurina on Saturday at 1:30pm and Alberta's Ben Kiist at 8:30pm.

. For week 12 of the event schedule, Ballance did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Ballance ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

CURLING HISTORY: A Prize Letter

In the run up to Christmas Day, 1893, the Aberdeen Peoples's Journal offered a prize of one guinea for the best letter about curling! That's the invitation... (read more)
EXTRA EXTRA END PODCAST: E20: Two-time U.S. Olympian Jessica...

A quick break for the Memorial Day holiday and we're back with our guest and new USA Curling Womenâs National Team & Juniors Director Jessica Schultz.... (read more)
MIKE THE CURLING GUY: Doing Jello Shots with my Kids...

I am in week 3 of isolation/quarantine/home schooling and getting a little squirrel-y. Personal hygiene has become optional. The kids have watched the entire... (read more)
WORLD CURLING REPORT: November 27th, 2019

On today's World Curling Report...we recap Day 1 of the 2019 Canada Cup. (read more)
FROM THE HACK: From the Hack Podcast - November...

On this week's podcast we focus on the Canada Cup with past champion Reid Carruthers (04:09), Adam Kingsbury - former coach of Team Homan and Team Jacobs (11:53)... (read more)