Balderston2-3 at 2019 Cora Breakfast & Lunch Grande Prairie Cash Spiel

SKIP
Kurt
Balderston

Third
Glen
Hansen

Second
Rob
Bucholz

Lead
Del
Shaughnessy

Kurt Balderston (Edmonton , AB) finished 2-3 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Balderston lost 1-0 to Alberta's Darrel Veiner, then responded with a 1-0 win over Alberta's Jeff Ginter. Balderston went on to lose 1-0 against Alberta's Delia DeJong. Balderston responded with a 1-0 win over Alberta's Darrel Veiner. Balderston went on to lose 1-0 against Daylan Vavrek (Sexsmith, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

Balderston earned 1.050 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 176th place overall with 16.967 total points. Balderston ranks 188th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 2.295 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.

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