Article: Promise kept: Ballance edges Borich and Jenks to win Loretta's GNCC.

Bill Ballance said after he salvaged a second-place finish at the Big Buck GNCC that he promised his new little girl a victory and that he'd have to do it at Lorettas. Ballance held true to that promise as he won Round 5 in Hurricane Mills. Tenn. It wasn't easy, however. He had to battle with up-and-comer Chris Jenks and his arch rival Chris Borich. The six-time champion also had to deal with yet another bent tierod, the result of a tussle with a pesky tree.

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"About four miles from the end. I tangled with a lapper and hit a tree." said Ballance. "I went over the bars ...

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