Team BC breaks 100 medal mark
All sports were back in action today at the 2017 Canada Summer Games and Team BC broke the 100 medal mark earning 12 more medals.
Medal Results:
GOLD: Swimming 200m Back – Acacia Benn (Penticton)
GOLD: Swimming 50m Back SO – Jesse Shade (Campbell River)
GOLD: Wrestling – Women’s Team
SILVER: Swimming 200m Back – Hana Edwards (Victoria)
SILVER: Swimming 200m Back – Tyler Wall (Penticton)
SILVER: Swimming 100m Breast SO – Arianna Hunsicker (Surrey)
SILVER: Swimming 50m Back SO – Cameron Chambers (Kamloops)
SILVER: Swimming 4x50m Relay – Crawford, Kim, Kranjc, Wall
SILVER: Wrestling – Men’s Team
BRONZE: Cycling Road Race – Jay Lamoureux (Victoria)
BRONZE: Swimming 200m Free – Raben Dommann (North Vancouver)
BRONZE: Swimming 100m Breast – Michael Schmidt (Victoria)
Team Results:
Volleyball Men – Team BC 3 vs Team Nova Scotia 0 – (25-15, 25-10, 25-19)
Volleyball Men – Team BC 3 vs Team Manitoba 0 – (25-18, 25-21, 25-15)
Softball Women – Team BC 10 vs Team Alberta 8
Softball Women – Team BC 3 vs Team Ontario 6
Soccer Men – Team BC 0 vs Team Alberta 0 (BC loses on penalties)
Tennis resumed today after being delayed by rain yesterday with Team BC defeating Quebec in the semifinals. It was a marathon session over six and a half hours, ending in a mixed doubles tiebreaker match that took three sets to decide (6-3, 6-4, 6-4). Team BC will now face Team Ontario in the Gold Medal match of the mixed team event on Friday morning.
Following the Mixed Team event, several team BC athletes had quarterfinal matches in the individual events. Men’s doubles team Aaron Diemer and Jovan Sihota defeated Nova Scotia in three sets, 6-7, 6-3, 6-3. Women’s doubles Yasmin Mansouri and Sasha Vagramov defeated Newfoundland in straight sets, 6-1, 6-0.
Leading into the final day of Golf rounds, Team BC is sitting strong in second place for both the men’s and women’s team standings. Individually the women sit in 1st, 4th and 8th overall and the men sit in 3rd, 7th and 8th.
The third day of racing for Canoe/Kayak produced some strong results for Team BC with the highlight being a 4th place finish in the K2 1000m for Alex Brent (Dewdney) & Matt Koehler (Maple Ridge) and 4th place in Men’s C1 200m for Alexandre Demishkevich (Kamloops).