British Columbia wins women’s hockey gold at 2023 Canada Winter Games
SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. –
For the primary time in historical past, British Columbia has gained ladies’s hockey gold
on the Canada Winter Games, beating Nova Scotia 3-0 within the gold medal recreation
at Credit Union Place in Summerside on Saturday afternoon.
The win marks thesecond ladies’s hockey medal general for
B.C. on the Canada Winter Games; it was additionally a silver medalist in 1991.
Mikayla Blomquist (Lake Country, B.C./RHA Kelowna, CSSHL)
opened the scoring simply over eight minutes into the second interval, andMaddie Leaney (Maple Ridge, B.C./RHA Kelowna, CSSHL) and
Danica Maynard (Osoyoos, B.C./Okanagan Hockey Academy, CSSHL)
rounded out the scoring to assist B.C. end the match with an ideal
document.
Chloe Primerano (North Vancouver, B.C./RHA Kelowna, CSSHL)
contributed a pair of assists, together with a helper on the eventual
game-winning objective. The draft choose of the Western Hockey League’s Vancouver
Giants completed first in match scoring with 14 factors and led all
gamers with 9 assists.
“This has been a long time coming,” mentioned British Columbia head coach Kris
Hogg. “It is difficult to place this sense into phrases. Plenty of these ladies have
been in our program for a very long time and have battled arduous from day one to
put B.C. on the map. What an amazing job by this group. I’m very happy with them
all.”
Nova Scotia superior to the gold medal recreation after beating Ontario 3-2 on
Saturday, a crew that includes 13 members of Canada’s National Women’s
U18 Team. The silver medal marks Nova Scotia’s first medal in ladies’s
hockey on the Canada Winter Games after not ending increased than 5 th place previous to the 2023 occasion.
“I feel this week really speaks to the calibre of hockey we have now in Nova
Scotia,” mentioned Nova Scotia head coach Kori Cheverie. “This group is so
particular; they performed three arduous video games to get so far and did
every little thing they might [to win]. We are very happy with the trouble of this
crew.”
Rhyah Stewart (Antigonish, N.S./Cape Breton West,
NSU18MHL
)
, who made 49 saves within the semifinal on Saturday, turned
in one other spectacular efficiency, kicking apart 45 photographs for Nova Scotia. Rebecca Noble (Delta, B.C./Fraser Valley, BCEHL) made 11
saves to backstop B.C. to victory.
Ontario defeats Quebec 3-1 to earn bronze
In Charlottetown, Team Ontario rebounded to earn its second-ever bronze
medal in ladies’s hockey on the Canada Winter Games, downing Quebec 3-1 in
the bronze medal recreation.
Three totally different gamers scored second-period targets for Ontario, with Caitlin Kraemer (Waterloo, Ont./Kitchener, OWHA U22 Elite)
, Abby Stonehouse (Blenheim, Ont./London, OWHA U22 Elite)
and Emmalee Pais (London, Ont./London, OWHA U22 Elite)
discovering the again of the web. Maxim Tremblay (Sherbrooke, Que./Stanstead College, JWHL) scored the lone
objective for Quebec.
Hannah Clark (Oshawa, Ont./Etobicoke, OWHA U22 Elite)
made 11 saves for Ontario, whereas Arianne Leblanc (Repentigny, Que./Stanstead College, JWHL)
turned apart 31 photographs for Quebec.
Overall, Ontario has gained seven medals in ladies’s hockey at Canada Winter
Games. It has gained 4 gold medals (1995, 1999, 2003, 2007) to go alongside
with one silver (2015) and two bronze (2011, 2023).
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