Team NB won four medals yesterday (Thursday) at the Canada Summer Games in Sherbrooke, Que. We enter the final day of competition for the first week of the Canada Games with chances to snag two more medals.
Gold medals have already gone to sailor Fraser Wells of Rothesay and wrestler Elizabeth "Bea" Fagan of Oromocto, while Bailey Theriault of Rexton and Shalina Mason of St. Stephen both got bronze in wrestling.
The men’s baseball
team meets Team Alberta in an early-afternoon bronze medal game. We lost 7-0 to British Columbia in a late semi-final game in
nearby Coaticook, Que.
In basketball, Team NB squares off against Quebec in the bronze medal
match.
Women’s softball returns to the field
against Saskatchewan for fifth place. The team earned the right to
Friday’s game after beating Alberta 7-0 Thursday.
After a week in the pool, swimmers head to the open water competition
in Lake Memphremagog Friday morning.
Mary Ketterling of Fredericton,
Kelsea Vessey of Fredericton, Gabriel Boivin of Dieppe and David
Thibodeau of Fredericton will take part in the 5,000-metre swim.