Cuba hits walk-off homer to capture bronze

A botched pick-off attempt and a second throwing error in the bottom of the extra frame led to two runs as Canada’s men’s baseball team edged the USA 7-6 on Sunday to defend its Pan American baseball title.

Harper finished with a game-high 16 points and four steals; Shatori Walker-Kimbrough (Maryland/Aliquippa, Pa.) had 15 point and four steals; Moriah Jefferson (Connecticut/Glenn Heights, Texas) had 12 points, five assists and six rebounds; and Breanna Stewart (Connecticut/North Syracuse, N.Y.) contributed 10 points and five rebounds.

Toronto is not the only location where UConn products are going after a gold medal. Team US opens against Venezuela at 2 p.m. Monday in the historic first-ever women’s baseball game. The U.S. will face Canada or Brazil in the finals. Coverage begins at 8:30 p.m. ET.

“I felt our team enjoyed thoroughly, especially straight out of the gate”, said You can introduce.S. mind show Lisa Bluder (Iowa). Witmer scored the Americans’ first goal seven minutes into the match against Chile. She added four steals.

The three Canadian runs in the 10th were needed after the USA had taken a 6-4 lead in the top of the inning on Tyler Pastornicky’s two-run single off Chris Leroux.

The rowing venue at the Pan Am Games, a quadrennial multisport event featuring countries from across Latin America, South America, the Caribbean and North America, is a short distance from the United States border.

Coates gave the U.S. squad its first lead of the second half and only second of the game with 3:33 left to go up 58-57 on an interior basket.

Canada had a chance to add some runs in the bottom of the seventh, putting runners at first and third with one out.

Cuba, which led by as many as 14 points earlier in the game, took a late one-point lead after Jefferson lost the ball near midcourt resulting in Ineidis Casanova’s layup.

Clark-Heard, the 2015 Conference USA Coach of the Year and a 2015 Pat Summitt Trophy award finalist, led her alma mater to a 30-5 mark in 2014-15, setting a new Conference US record for wins in a season and posting the second 30-win season in WKU history.

“It’s a dream come true…”

The U.S. Team consisted of Tamayo, Jennifer Valente, Sarah Hammer and Catlin Kelly.

Much like numerous other big events in Toronto this past week at the 2015 Pan American Games, the women’s basketball competition comes down to the United States and Canada for the gold medal. “Softball is all bang-bang plays”.