Men’s basketball finishes fourth

The Team BC men’s basketball team faced a challenging against Team Quebec this afternoon at the Duckworth Centre as they fought for a bronze medal. Quebec came out strong, taking an early lead. BC came back with more energy in the second half, particularly in the third quarter. In the end, Quebec came out on top 77-56 and Team BC finished with a 4th place finish overall. 

Scoring Summary
Team BC: 9-13-13-21: 56 
Team QB: 21-24-16-16: 77 

Team BC scoring leaders
ROSS, Christopher (North Vancouver) – 16 points 
PAIGE, Adam (Surrey) – 10 points 
MCCHESNEY, Liam (Prince Rupert) – 8 points 

Quotes: 

WILKINSON, Michael (Port Coquitlam) 
On the basketball tournament overall 
“I feel like our team really excelled during the Games. As our coach was saying, our team was put together sort of sporadically and over the months we put it all together and peaked at the right time. We played a couple of really tough games and we got big wins out of them and we put ourselves in a really good position. I think a lot of teams would want to be in the place that we are now.”

On the overall Games experience
“The overall Games experience has been really fun. It’s kind of like a huge version of the BC Summer games which I went to and it’s really cool to see all the athletes in one place; conversing with a rower or someone who runs track, you never get a chance to do that— it’s a once in a lifetime experience.” 

LEDOUX, Spencer (Kamloops) 
On the highlights of the basketball tournament 
“The highlights of the tournament for me were the really close games that got exciting and were nail biting.” 

On the athlete village 
“My favorite part of the athlete village was definitely meeting all the different athletes from all over Canada. It was really cool to learn about their sports.”