Alpine Skiing
Katie Vowk had to ski hard to hold onto silver in the GS today. Wesley Vangel just missed a bronze in the juvenile men's GS as did Charlie Hawes in the junior men's.
We had an excellent day on the slopes and each racer had a fast day.
Tomorrow we race in our final event, Parallel Slalom, fun, fast, two racers side by side. Great action at a spectacular venue.
Arctic Sports
Arctic Sports had another marathon day as officials and competitors caught up on the missed day at the start of the Games. Anisa Albisser and Payton Fobe each had great competitions and won silver in arm pull, while Fayne O’Donovan took bronze. Tomorrow is all about the one foot high kick, sledge jump and airplane. Watch for a record to be broken in airplane as this test of strength now includes a time component!
Badminton
One win for prism swaswirsky and Lukas kobler. Highlight of the day was the three set match against Alberta north, one of the top teams. KC Mooney and Micheal Betts were the big winners of the day with two wins and the highlight against a higher ranked Alaska. Nora Vincent-Braun and Marek Boulerice also registered a win with their highlight performance against Alberta north with two high scoring sets. Abbie Cuenza and Carl Knickle were unable to notch a W but have a significant highlight against a strong Greenland team where they pushed the team to 14 points in the first set. Tomorrow will see two semi final matches being played with Marek and Lukas. It looks like we'll have two bronze medal games to celebrate!
Basketball
Yukon boys played their third game of the tournament against a highly motivated, defending champion NWT team. After keeping the game fairly close in the first half, yukon just couldn't consistently beat a strong NWT press and lost their first game 53 to 89.
Yukon leading scorer RJ Siosan once again gave defenses fits scoring a game high 24 points. Dave Mindanao scored 8, and Darcy LaRochelle had a strong game chipping in 7 points.
The Yukon girls team lost a difficult game against NWT 60 to 28. They are incredibly eager to play them again tomorrow at 10:00am.
Tomorrow's semi-playoff game schedule is still to be determined for both the men and the women.
Biathlon
Sk Biathlon report.
1 gold, Liam Adel Junior male. 2 silver, Bronwyn Gpodwin-Williams and Maria Peters. 1 bronze, Daniel Sennett.
Snowshoe Biathlon report. 1 gold, Aiden Adel. 2 silver, Veronica Porter Juvenile female and Bruce Wilson Junior male. 1 bronze, Marika Kitchen Junior female.
Interesting moments: While waiting for the medal ceremonies to begin the team kept warm in a puddle huddle which you can see at www.twitter.com/goteamyukon
Did you notice that it is the Adel brothers bringing in the biathlon golds? COOLIO!!!!
Tomorrow is the exciting race and a must see for those of you who have a moment. Mass start, enalty loops for missed shots, guaranteed colourful and noisy chaos!
Cross Country Skiing
Another great day at the cross country ski venue with beautiful skies and friendly breezes.
Our Yukon team did very well again with 5 more ulus:
Simon Cash second gold in 2 days in Junior males with a big lead.
Natalie Hynes gold in Junior females. Hannah Deuling tied for silver in an exciting photo finish.
Derek Deuling won silver in midget boys.
Lots of very strong performances from our skiers.
Tomorrow is our Relay day (3x 3km) starting at 10:00am
Cultural Contingent
Culture spent the day in dress rehearsals preparing for tonight's Gala. As "Cold Fusion" they will perform original song and dance. Tomorrow is the same: rehearsals then performance at 7:00pm
Dene Games
The GUX Venue was alive all day today with Dene Games Hand Games. The pace was intense. The teams won 3 gold ulus and dominated Handgames. Good show Dene Games. Nuuk will be dancing to the drum beat all night! Participants head back to USK tomorrow for the finger pull event. Ouch!
Juveniles did their best today, they came up short but the whole team is feeling for them. Good job girls, Tugugin Dickson, Kassua Dreyer, Kitana Jaylene, Azrielle Andrea Jada-Rose Allen-Charlie
Futsal
It was an awesome day at the Futsal venue today. Here are the results from today's games:
Intermediate girls vs NWT 3-0. Goals by Mikaela (2) and Thea.
Intermediate girls vs Sapmi 4-5. Goals by Thea, Mikaela (2) and Malorie.
Junior girls vs Alberta N. 3-3, goals by Charlotte, Tyra and Bryn.
Junior girls vs Greenland 5-0, goals by Bryn (2), Sarah, Maggie and Tyra.
Junior boys vs Alberta N. 1-0, goal by Cody.
Junior boys vs Greenland 0-2.
Juvenile girls vs Alaska 2-0, goals by Kamryn and Abby.
Juvenile boys vs Alberta N. 8-0, goals by Joe (2), Andreas (2), Ben (2), Jason and Rhys.
Intermediate girls and Junior girls ended the round robin in 2nd place. Both Juvenile teams and the Junior boys ended the round robin in 3rd place. Semi finals start on Thursday. Come out and cheer us on!
Hockey
Today’s hockey events went off without a hitch...or a blizzard.
The boys began the day playing co-host Nunavut and fell short in the close well played game of 3-2. The females were up next playing against Alberta North. It was a close game but the girls lost 3-1. The boys then went on to play Alaska with it being close after the first period. The Yukon boys tried their best but ran out of gas losing 9-0.
Highlights included Colten Webb and Joy Morin receiving Fair Play pins for the good sportsmanship.
Tomorrow is the start of the playoffs and the schedule is still to be determined.
Snowboarding
Two more ulus today in the Slopestyle; Tim Schirmer won a silver in juniors and Asher Brault won a bronze in juvenile.
Sammy Mather placed 4th in juvenile and Ethan Davy placed 7th in juniors
The highlight reel moment of the day was watching 10 yr old Riley Boland catch big air in the Slopestyle and placing "not last", but 4th in the juvenile women's!
Rachael MacIntosh also had a 4th place finish and is looking forward to another day to compete at SIS.
Snowshoeing
It was a busy day for snowshoeing today, starting with the construction of the 200m oval track and 100m straight away. Both the mixed juvenile and junior teams won silver in the 4 x 400 relay with stiff competition.
The juveniles ran the 100, 400 and 800m heats today. Although all the athletes had strong finishes, the final results will not be released until Thursday to allow officials time to calculate the final points standings.
The juniors ran the 100, 400 and 1500 m and also have to wait for Thursday for final results.
Congrats to Breda, Ava, Jack, Naoise, Kate, Maggie, Brahm and Joe for such a great effort, while staying cool, calm and collected during a tough day!
Table Tennis
It was a busy day with over 30 matches played by team Yukon in doubles and mixed doubles. Highlights of the day were Arcel Siosan and Zack Zimmermann bronze medal win in juvenile men's doubles, also Emily Gaw's fair play pin presented for fair play and sportsmanship. The stage is set for Thursday morning starting at 10:00 with Sam Crocker advancing to the semi-finals for junior men, Grace Anne Janssen in semi-finals for junior women, Arcel Siosan in semi finals for juvenile men, and Emily Gaw in semi finals for juvenile women. Grace Anne Janssen and Ashley Harris are advancing to doubles, junior women. Arcel Siosan and Emly Gaw advance to semis for juvenile mixed doubles.
Volleyball
The Yukon Female Volleyball team played their last game of the round robin against Nunavut this morning. The girls came out fired up and soundly defeated Nunavut 25-16. There were great passes and hits from Tayla McNally! Set 2 the teams battled back and forth with Nunavut taking the set 27-25. Set 3 saw Yukon come back winning 25-23. Set 4 was taken by Nunavut 26-24 and then clinching the match with a 15-7 victory!
Highlight of the match was Alice Frost jumping into the stands to retrieve a ball to bring it back into play to get the point!! The team placed fifth out of five teams so will not continue into the playoffs.
The Yukon Male Volleyball team played Nunavut this morning defeating them 3-1 (25-14, 25-14, 20-25 & 25-13). Parker Olson hit a "quick " through the floor and Anshil Kumar "roofed" a middle player for a big point!
Later in the day the boys played Alberta for first place and after a hard-fought game the boys came up short losing 3-1 (25-14, 23-25, 25-21, 25-17).
Wrestling
Today was a very good day for Wrestling. Our 6 wrestlers took home 6 medals (5 Silver 1 Bronze). Eveyone is very pleased with today's showing.
The highlight of the day was every wrestler won at least one match.
Result summary.
Male
Silver
Shayne Melanson 82 kg
Jacob Melason 75 kg
Jared Peterson 68 kg
Female
Silver
Kestrel Martin 65 kg
Emiko Teramura 55 kg
Bronze
Hannah King 71 kg
Tomorrow the team continues on the mats at the KA gym at 9:30 am for the Inuit Wrestling clinic with tournament to follow. The team is looking forward to learning a new style of Wrestling tomorrow..
