| POOL A | ONT | QUE | NS | MAN | PEI | Record | ||
| Ontario | —– | 74-57 | 90-45 | 92-45 | 77-44 | (4-0) | ||
| Quebec | 57-74 | —– | 62-48 | 68-53 | 63-52 | (3-1) | ||
| Nova Scotia | 45-90 | 48-62 | —– | 69-53 | 69-62 | (2-2) | ||
| Manitoba | 45-92 | 53-68 | 53-69 | —– | 69-51 | (1-3) | ||
| PEI | 44-77 | 52-63 | 61-69 | 51-69 | —– | (0-4) | ||
| POOL B | BC | ALTA | SASK | NFLD | NB | Record | ||
| British Columbia | —– | 74-61 | 81-68 | 74-39 | 70-50 | (4-0) | ||
| Alberta | 61-74 | —– | 69-59 | 81-66 | 71-54 | (3-1) | ||
| Saskatchewan | 68-81 | 59-69 | —– | 80-57 | 82-61 | (2-2) | ||
| Newfoundland | 39-74 | 66-81 | 57-80 | —– | 65-61 | (1-2) | ||
| New Brunswick | 50-70 | 54-71 | 61-82 | 61-65 | —– | (0-4) | ||
| Semi | Ontario 66 Alberta 62 | |
| Semi | British Columbia 61 Quebec 36 | |
| 9th | New Brunswick 61 Prince Edward Island 47 | |
| 7th | Manitoba 55 Newfoundland 44 | |
| 5th | Nova Scotia 69 Saskatchewan 62 | |
| Bronze | Alberta 79 Quebec 75 | |
| Final | British Columbia 65 Ontario 61 | |
The competition was part of the Canada Games in Brandon.
In pool A play: Ontario thrashed Manitoba 92-45 as Laura Verbeeten scored 20 and dished 8 assists. Ontario led 38-18 at the half and forced 34 turnovers. Erin Soroko led Manitoba with 11. Patty Wood added 6 and Becky McCannell 3. “We’re disappointed, but still hopeful,” said Manitoba guard Becky McCannell. “We were playing pretty good for the first 10 minutes and then just kind of went downhill. But we still have games to go and hopefully we’ll do better.” Manitoba coach Pam Danis said “when you lose by 40 in your first game, I don’t think there’s a whole lot of positives you can take out of it. I’ll be honest. I think we didn’t play very well at all tonight. I think we made Ontario look a lot better than maybe they are … I’m disappointed, not so much with the girls. I thought for the most part the girls worked hard.” Patty Wood added that “they were a tough team and everything, but we weren’t ready to play. We sort of let them take over.” …………………………………………………… Quebec dumped Nova Scotia 62-48 after leading 28-27 at the half. Kari Scott let Nova Scotia with 18. Karen Piers added 11. …………………………………………………… Nova Scotia thrashed Manitoba 69-53. Kari Scott paced Nova Scotia with 15. Janet Wells added 12. Manitoba shot 35% from the floor and 10-24 from the line. “We just weren’t hitting our shots,” said forward Brooke Bender, who scored 12. “We were told to go inside and it worked. We got a lot of fouls, but from the foul line we just couldn’t cut it.” Patty Wood added 7 for Manitoba. …………………………………………………… Quebec defeated PEI 63-52. PEI took an early nine-point lead but Quebec rallied back to lead by five at the half and took command with a 10-3 run in the final five minutes after the Islanders had rallied to within three. “The kids were heroes today,” said PEI coach Chris Annett. “I am happy with the game and I think the kids are happy. We just ran out of steam a little bit.” Kate Ellis led PEI with 14. Angela Large and Joslin Cheverie each added 9. “Our passing just wasn’t coming together in the second half,” said PEI guard Kate Myron. “We turned over the ball a lot. We had a lot more intensity in the first half.” …………………………………………………… Krista Connolly scored 16, Kate Ellis 9, Kate Myron 9 and Angela Large 7 in PEI’s 69-62 loss to Nova Scotia. The defence of Karen Piers and deadly shooting by Keri Scott proved the difference for Nova Scotia, which outscored PEI by 11 in the second half …………………………………………………… Ontario pummeled PEI 77-44 after leading 40-21 at the half and shooting .360 from the floor. PEI shot .240 and were paced by Angela Large’s 8 points. Kate Ellis, Krista Connolly and Kate Myron each added 7. “We are happy with the way we played,” said Large. “We wanted to get their respect. It was important to get that respect. Then we just went out there had had fun.” …………………………………………………… Manitoba defeated PEI 69-51 as Erin O’Neil scored 18, along with 5 boards, and Erin Soroko 13, along with 6 boards. Dana Harvey scored 6 during a decisive 22-4 run by Manitoba in the second half. Manitoba led 32-24 at the half. Kate Myron led PEI with 17. Joslin Cheverie added 9. “This game is a turning point for us,” said O’Neil, a 6-foot-3 sophomore at the University of Florida. “All the girls knew that this was our last chance here because losing our first two games, we had to make up for it.” PEI shot .200, while Manitoba shot .500. …………………………………………………… Nova Scotia defeated PEI 69-62 as Janet Wells scored 14, Karen Piers 12 and Kari Scott 11. Trailing 29-17, Nova Scotia exploded for eight unanswered points late in the first half and then carried their momentum into the second frame. Krista Connolly led PEI with 16. Kate Ellis and Kate Myron each added 9. …………………………………………………… Ontario thrashed Nova Scotia 90-45 after leading 50-23 at the half. Connie Spacek led Nova Scotia with 8. …………………………………………………… Nova Scotia defeated Manitoba 69-53 after leading 43-27 at the half. Kari Scott led Nova Scotia with 15. Janet Wells added 13. …………………………………………………… Quebec dumped Manitoba 68-53. The game turned when Manitoba forward Ola Samborska had a mental lapse and scored on her own basket off a rebound on a free throw. Quebec promptly forced two turnovers off the rattled Manitobans and turned a three-point game edge into a 13-point lead. “Those are turning points,” said Manitoba coach Pam Danis. “I mean, (Samborska), she’s devastated.
That could have been a turning point, but we did some things before and after that that could have got us back in the game . . . We’re all sitting there going, ‘What do we do?’ You’ve got to take that all in stride and move on.” Dana Harvey, who scored 15 for Manitoba, said “this is a really hard one to swallow. Everybody’s pretty emotional
because, like any athlete here, they want to go home with a medal. But. . . we just have to go out and finish on a good note.” ……………………………………………………
In pool B play: …………………………………………………… British Columbia crushed Newfoundland 74-39 as Teresa Kleindienst scored 18.
In the semis, Ontario defeated Alberta 66-62 despite trailing 40-26 at the half. Stacey Dales paced Ontario with 18 points and 5 boards. “I don’t think it was overconfidence,” said Alberta centre Leighann Doan, who scored 26 and nabbed 10 boards, while dishing 4 assists and pilfering 4 balls. “They caught us on our heels a bit. It’s a tough loss and I know I gave it everything, but you always think there is a little bit more, if I had only done this, or if I had only done that … So it’s disappointing right now.” Ontario coach Angela Orton said Doan “was outstanding and we had great difficulty with her.” Theresa Jantzen added 17 for Alberta.
In the other semi, B.C. defeated Quebec 61-36 as Teresa Kleindienst scored 12 and Amy Ewert 11, along with 9 boards.
New Brunswick captured ninth by pounding PEI 61-47 as Lindsay Myers scored 14. Angela Large and Krista Connolly each scored 10 for PEI. Kate Myron added 9 and Kate Ellis 6. “Our starters can play with anybody in Canada,” said PEI coach Chris Annett. “But much of our bench is comprised of juvenile aged players from our high school programs, who struggle against the more experienced players from the larger provinces.” New Brunswick (coached by Monique Allain and Jennifer Clark and managed by Ruth Henry-Dickinson) also included Angelia Crealock, Jillian Hachey, Kate Henheffer, Sharolyn Higgs, Cynthia Hitchcock, Gillian Leblanc, Kate Little, Jillian MacDonald, Kristin Moore, Carolyn Plummer and Renee Poirier. PEI included Annett, Campbell, Joselin Cheverie, Connolly, Ellis, Ellis, Ellsworth, Houston, Large, Lund, McGuigan, Kate Myron, Nowe-Ellis, Vessey, Wheatley
In the 7th place match, Manitoba dumped Newfoundland 55-44 as Patty Wood scored 7. Manitoba (coached by Pam Danis, assisted by Garth Thomson) included Nong Thai, Christina Blouw, Becky McCannell, Ruth-Anne Joseph, Claudine Cooke, Erin Soroko, Ola Samborska, Megan Dixon, Erin O’Neil, Brooke Bender and alternate Heather Wedlake. Newfoundland included Coultas, Dewling, Flynn, Grant, Hynes, King, MacInnis, McNeil, Mulcahy, Ann Murrin, Skas, Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, coach King
In the fifth-place match, Nova Scotia defeated Saskatchewan 69-62 as Kristi-Jo Robinson scored 18 and Janet Wells 11. Nova Scotia led 44-21 at the half. Saskatchewan rallied to within eight with three minutes to play but the Bluenosers hit their free throws to pull out the win. Nova Scotia included Burns, Chisholm, Chisholm, DeYoung, Hampton, Henneberry, Johnston, Maclean, Morrison, Karen Piers, Sapcek, Kari Scott, coach Mackay. Saskatchewan included Brockman, Couzens, Dedman, Dore, Dubord, Heisler, Hilko, Howie, Kaczowka, Poley, Puetz, Stapleton, Taylor, Wersta, Weseen
In the bronze medal match, Alberta defeated Quebec 79-75 to earn the province’s first Canada Games medal. They celebrated by dousing coach Dori Johnson with a giant tub of water. “The one memory I’ll have is that we all got along so well,” said guard Jody Currie. “We roomed together, ate together, played together, hung out together. If I had another summer starting right now, I’d do it all again. It’s been so much fun.” Currie attributed the win to the player’s familiarity with one another. Alberta trailed 41-36 at the half but rallied to take a 72-71 lead with less than three minutes to play. The Albertans led 76-75 when Leighann Doan chucked the ball out of bounds. But then Cathy Butlin stole the ball, was fouled and converted both free throws before Theresa Jantzen drew a foul and hit one free throw to close out the scoring. “We were very strong defensively, when we put our minds to it,” said coach Dori Johnson. “That’s the thing about this team, is they can come back from disappointment. Other teams might have buckled but they refocused.” Doan led Alberta with 29 points, 13 boards and 3 assists. Jantzen added 23 points and 13 boards. Caroline Levasseur paced Quebec with 20. Quebec led 41-36 at the half. Quebec also included Bellavance, Charles, Gravel, Jacques, Larkins, Macaulay, Maks, Mercier, Moore, Pedneau, Poulin, Ritchie, Rodrigue, Roger and Grenier.
In the final, British Columbia edged Ontario 65-61. BC took command after switching from a post line-up to a quicker smaller crew. With Theresa Kleindienst, Lindsay Brook, Kim Johnson, Amy Ewert and Carla Evans on the floor, BC rallied from a 14-point deficit and took command. Kleindienst hit several critical shots down the stretch. “She had a couple of pull ups, one on the baseline,” said coach Bruce Langford. “She kind of got over a couple of people. It was huge.” Ontario missed several chances in the final minute of play and a close blocking call on Stacey Dales put Kleindienst on the line to ice the win. Kleindienst scored 16 on 8-12 from the floor, 5 boards and 2 assists. Langford said Kleindienst could “barely walk. We didn’t know if she could play and she had a great game. Yesterday we didn’t know if she was going to play and we had her at every medical expert in this town. She’s gone through every therapy She hurts a ton, but she’s got heart.” Kleindienst said “I was icing, going to physio and doing everything I could for it. But I just tried not to think about it very much and play through it. We all wanted it a lot and we all had lots of heart and we came out there and played our hardest.” Kim Johnson added 14 points and 9 boards. Ontario led 35-29 at the half. “We’re pretty disappointed and I think we should be,” said Ontario coach Angela Orton. “I think we had enough talent to win the game. I think to B.C.’s credit, I think B.C. deserved to win the game. We gave up a 10-point lead with some pretty poor decisions. … We’ve come to expect that we’re good enough to win the gold medal. So, it’s pretty heartbreaking for these kids.” Katherine McColl led Ontario with 13 points and 9 boards. Jennifer Rigg added 11, along with 7 boards, and Stacey Dales 10, along with 6 boards. “This was our goal all season to win gold and our cheer every time we break has been gold,” said Kleindienst. “And we’re all very happy that we were able to come out and play hard and win the gold.”
The bronze medalists from Alberta: Jody Currie; Alison McGinn; Cathy Butlin; Allison Dana; Pam Hoyles; Alexandra Young; Leighann Doan; Erin Sandusky; Natalie Hudec; Theresa Jantzen; Brandie Speers; Tanya Beasley; coach Dori Johnson; assistant Sandre Goheen; manager Douglas Baker
The silver medalists from Ontario: Taryn Turnbull; Tami Asquith; Rachel Ellison; Elanna Robson; Jennifer Rigg; Laura Verbeeten; Danielle Everitt; Stacey Dales; Christin Dickenson; Katherine McColl; Anna James; Jennifer Cunningham; Susan Murray; Tricia Young; Racquel Burke; Arthur; Everitt; coach Angela Orton; assistant Theresa Burns.
The gold medalists from British Columbia: Charmaine Adams; Lindsay Brooke; Carla Evans; Amy Ewert; Carli Halpenny; Kim Johnson; Amy Jonker; Julie Kyte; Emily King; Teresa Kleindienst; Heather Osberg; Jen Vande Walle; Tanya Neufeld (alternate); Christine Rigby (alternate); coach Bruce Langford; assistant Sue MacPherson; manager Julia Kyte