Humboldt’s Paige Crozon and the Canadian women’s 3×3 basketball team will play for bronze at the Olympic Summer Games in Paris after losing a nailbiter 16-15 to Germany in the semifinal on Monday morning.
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Humboldt’s Paige Crozon and the Canadian women’s 3×3 basketball team will play for bronze at the Olympic Summer Games in Paris after losing a nailbiter 16-15 to Germany in the semifinal on Monday morning. Crozon had four points in the game.
Results for the bronze-medal game, which saw Canada take on the United States on Monday afternoon, were not available at the print deadline.
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In other Monday competition, the Canadian women’s artistic swimming team took part in their first of three events with the team technical routine. The team, which features co-captain Kenzie Priddell of Regina and alternate Sydney Carroll of Saskatoon, finished fifth with a score of 262.4808.
And Anicka Newell, who has Saskatoon connection, completed a jump of 4.40-metres in Monday’s women’s pole vault qualification round, but it wasn’t enough to advance to the finals.
In other recent results, Canada’s men’s basketball team, featuring Saskatoon-born Trey Lyles, is headed for a quarterfinal game against France on Tuesday after the red-and-white wrapped up its group phase with a perfect 3-0 record.
Also moving on to the next round is the Canadian women’s water-polo team with Regina’s Blaire McDowell. The team finished the group phase with a 1-3 record, but good enough for fourth place, and will face Spain in Tuesday’s quarterfinals.
Meanwhile, Borden’s Savannah Sutherland advanced to the women’s 400-metre hurdles semifinals on Tuesday, following a preliminary round time of 54.80 seconds. She’ll also compete in the women’s 4×400-m relay later this week.
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Leading the German women’s basketball team, Saskatoon head coach Lisa Thomaidis and assistant coach Connor Jay, will take on France in their quarterfinals on Wednesday. The team suffered a 87-68 loss to the United States on Sunday to finish the group phase 2-1.
Several other Saskatchewan athletes will be in action in the final week of the Games, including divers Rylan Wiens in the individual men’s 10-metre platform and Margo Erlam, who trains out of Saskatoon, in the women’s 3-m, as well as Saskatoon’s Michelle Harrison in the women’s 100-m hurdles.
Wiens has already captured a bronze medal at the Games in the men’s synchronized 10-m event.
Berries to play Med. Hat in playoffs
The 2024 Western Canadian Baseball League playoffs are already set, but teams still had to wrap up the regular season over the long weekend.
For the Saskatoon Berries, that meant a couple of road games against the Medicine Hat Mavericks, the same team they’ll be facing in the first round of playoffs.
On Sunday, home runs by Bryce Campbell and Oakland Flodell helped Saskatoon to an 11-3 victory over Medicine Hat, avenging the team’s 11-2 loss to the Mavericks the day before.
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The Berries’ final regular season game was Monday against the Moose Jaw Express. However, the score was not available at deadline.
Saskatoon ended the season in third place in the East Division standings and will take on No. 2 Medicine Hat in the best-of-three East semifinals starting Wednesday.
Fusion win U19 Canadian championship
At the Canadian U-19 women’s fast pitch championship in Saskatoon this past week, the Fraser Valley, B.C. Fusion captured the title with a 4-1 victory over the Aurora, Ont. Diggers on Sunday.
The event featured three Saskatchewan teams: Moose Jaw Ice (3-4); Saskatoon Selects Wolverines (1-6); host Saskatoon PD Selects (5-3, lost 6-4 to the Fusion in playoffs).
PD Selects infielder Cadence Colburn was named a tournament all-star.
Softball provincials
Saskatchewan softball provincial championship have wrapped up with the Saskatoon Jacks defeating the Bruno Merchants 7-0 this past weekend to claim the Men’s A Division title.
Baseball provincials
The Saskatoon Blue Jay Cannons defeated the Kindersley Royals 11-8 to win the 13U AA Tier 1 provincial titles on the final weekend in July, while, during the first weekend of August, the Saskatoon Cardinals defeated the Regina White Sox 19-14 in the 13U AAA Tier 1 championship and Saskatoon Giants won 5-1 over the Saskatoon Diamondbacks in the 18U AAA division.
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