Ballance4-4 at 2023 New Holland Canadian Junior Championship

SKIP
James
Ballance

Third
Lowell
Whittmire

Second
Ethan
Drysdale

Lead
Neil
Donovan

James Ballance (Lethbridge, AB) finished 4-4 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ballance defeated Chase MacMillan (Cornwall, PEI) 10-4, then went on to lose 7-3 against Jace Freeman (Virden, MB). Ballance lost 10-4 to Newfoundland / Labrador's Nathan Young. Ballance lost 13-9 to Leandre Girard (Trois-Rivieres, QC) where Ballance responded with a 11-4 win over Thomas Reed (Maple Ridge, BC). Ballance won 7-4 against Jayden King (Ottawa, ON), then won 8-4 against Dallas Burgess (Thunder Bay, NONT). Ballance went on to lose 10-4 against Jordon McDonald (Winnepeg, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

Ballance earned 4.500 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 35 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.

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