Pan Am Roundup: Canada adds rhythmic gymnastics, fencing medals

“That’s the one great thing about these tournaments – five games in five days”.

Nathalie Achonwa, a 22-year-old forward from Guelph, Ont., who starred for Notre Dame during her stellar NCAA career, and who now plays in the WNBA, unveiled her powerful inside moves in the second half.

Smooth-shooting Brady Heslip did his part. While forcing five turnovers in the frame, Canada led the US 62-51 going into the fourth. Murray is the only one of the three to not have played in a collegiate contest yet.

“Well, I do more than just shoot the ball”.

A similar petition – which didn’t work – was previously launched to prevent Yeezy from headlining this year’s Glastonbury Festival, and for the “Gold Digger” hitmaker to be replaced by a rock band. “I’m definitely not going to rest”.

“It was a really tough race to get onto this team”, said Genest, from Shawinigan, Que. But Steve Nash, Canadian team GM and former National Basteball Association MVP, is confident in Heslip’s ability to adapt. He just brings something to the table that is so valuable. You can see the complete round-robin standings here. You don’t want to bet against a guy like Brady.

“I’ve never seen anything like that in my entire life”, says Blatz, referring to the throwing errors that led to Canada’s last two runs.

“Their zone really hurt us”, head coach Lisa Bluder said about Canada’s extended 2-3 zone defense.

Junior Cadougan, who had six points and two assists, started at point guard ahead of Murray. Canada swept the golds when Keegan Soehn won the men’s competition.

Mexican weightlifter Cinthya Vanessa Dominguez Lara and baseball players Nelson Gomez (Puerto Rico), Mario Mercedes Castillo (Dominican Republic) and Javier Jesus Ortiz Angulo (Colombia) had earlier failed doping tests. She scored 12 second-quarter points helping Canada tie the game at 36 by halftime. Heslip, who buried six shots in a row at one point, had 18 points in the first half.

“Brady is a shooter, it’s not a secret”, Triano said.

“I thought our team was extremely focused today, and I thought they gave us their best effort, and that’s all we can ask out of them”, Bluder continued.

For the Canadian Men’s Pan Am Soccer team their day started as a nightmare, then it got worse. They cover most of the summer game events. While a Pan Am spokesman said there were other bidders, it’s unclear just how much of a demand there was for an event that drew mostly negative headlines right up until the opening ceremony.

Wiltjer, on the other hand, didn’t get in the game until there was less than a minute to play in the game.

Canada will play again on Wednesday against Argentina at 6:00 PM.

The closest Canada has come to women’s basketball gold in the 60 years the sport has been on the Pan Ams program was in 1999 when Cuba and Canada reached the gold-medal game, with the latter taking the silver medal on home soil in Winnipeg. She earned her first senior national team spot a year ago when Canada placed fifth at the 2014 FIBA World Championships in Turkey.

Melissa Fraser of Hillsburgh, Ont., finished seventh.

With Olympic plans calling for three courses inside the bay and two outside, ISAF is looking to add a third course out in Atlantic to provide more flexibility in the scheduling of races if conditions in Guanabara do not improve.

The battleship-sized Bhullar, 7-5 and 360 pounds, played 8:23 and left his mark. Nicole Luchanski added an RBI single of her own making it 4-0 before Bradi Wall doubled to centre driving home three runs.