“Could you hear us on the podium?” Shona Thorburn asked reporters, her faced stretched in a wide smile.
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The 2015 U.S. Pan American Women’s Basketball Team (4-1) finished with a silver medal after coming up short and losing 81-73 to host Canada (5-0) in the gold medal game of the 2015 Pan American Games on Monday night at Ryerson Athletic Center in Toronto, Canada.
“We tried our best, we tried to come back as a team, but it fell short”, Harper said of the eight-point loss. “We belted it”. She’s hoping the hard work pays off with a contribution to the bloated Canadian medal count.
Tamara Tatham of Brampton, Ont., chipped in with 10 points for the Canadians, whose depth and attention to defence made them the class of the tournament. “She’s like that. She wants to be ideal”.
The Canadian clubs/hoop group took bronze in their event with 13.709 points. Literally. Team US allowed the tying and winning runs to score on two wild throws on the same play in the bottom of the 10th inning of Canada’s 7-6 victory.
The much anticipated table tennis event at the 2015 Pan American Games has begun today in Toronto, Canada in front of a sell out crowd. The resident of Hamilton, Ontario, now plays for UConn, and is the niece of former Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb.
“Probably just from the competitive family that I have, just being raised in such a competitive way and getting to watch my brother do all those insane things for himself and you know you get to try and one-up him…it’s a good feeling”, she said, laughing. She scored 13 points and demonstrated that her surgically repaired left knee is fit for elite competition.
“She was unbelievable”, USA forward Breanna Stewart said of her collegiate teammate.
Pardon a joke the women have heard many times, but none of the players threw like a girl, and none wore a skirt, which was the uniform in the 1992 film “A League of their own”, a depiction of women’s professional baseball in the United States in the 1940s starring Tom Hanks, Geena Davis and Madonna.
Was this the end to the gold-medal baseball game or a scene from “The Bad News Bears Go to the Pan Am Games“?
“I’m not sure how unknown we are to our opponents”, Canadian coach Lisa Thomaidis said. “Not even close. It’s a whole different level for me there….” Our national membership supports and promotes Canada’s firearms heritage, traditional target shooting competition, modern action shooting sports, hunting, and archery.
“Although I can use Skype, I miss my children”. The Americans have won gold seven of the 14 times its been awarded since the first Pan American Games for women in 1955. The Canadian women’s previous best finish was silver in 1999 in Winnipeg.
Monday’s crowd seemed particularly mesmerized by the tricks segment – described by McClintock as “ballet on the water” – gasping as they watched the competitors flip, twist and cut halos in the air with their skis.
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The Canadian team still has to qualify for the Olympics, with only the victor of next month’s FIBA Americas in Edmonton earning an automatic berth in the tournament next summer in Brazil.
