POOL A | ONT | NS | NB | QUE | MAN | Record | ||
Ontario | —– | 91-50 | 80-67 | 86-77 | 89-77 | (4-0) | ||
Nova Scotia | 50-91 | —– | 65-61 | 70-57 | 90-82 | (3-1) | ||
New Brunswick | 67-80 | 61-65 | —– | 74-72 | 84-52 | (2-2) | ||
Quebec | 77-86 | 57-70 | 72-74 | —– | 83-64 | (1-3) | ||
Manitoba | 77-89 | 82-90 | 52-84 | 64-83 | —– | (0-4) | ||
POOL B | ALTA | BC | SASK | NFLD | Record | |||
Alberta | —– | 81-62 | 100-93 | 99-62 | (3-0) | |||
British Columbia | 62-81 | —– | 86-66 | 91-51 | (2-1) | |||
Saskatchewan | 93-100 | 66-86 | —– | 79-76 | (1-2) | |||
Newfoundland | 62-99 | 51-91 | 76-79 | —– | (0-3) | |||
Semi | Ontario 64 British Columbia 53 | |
Semi | Nova Scotia 67 Alberta 66 | |
9th | Manitoba | |
7th | Quebec 104 Newfoundland & Labrador 55 | |
5th | New Brunswick 70 Saskatchewan 60 | |
Bronze | British Columbia 71 Alberta 43 | |
Final | Ontario 82 Nova Scotia 59 | |
In pool A play, held in Lethbridge at the Val Metteotti Gymnasium: …………………………………………………… Colin Laforme scored 19, along with 8 boards, Sheldon Stewart 16 and Tyrone Madison 16 as Ontario defeated Quebec 86-77. Quebec led 40-37 at the half. Jean-Francois Beaulieu paced Quebec with 23. Marc-Andre D’Amours added 18, while Gregory Page nabbed 8 boards. …………………………………………………… Nova Scotia nipped New Brunswick as Buddy Husbands scored 23. Damian Gay added 17 and grabbed 11 boards. Nova Scotia led 39-29 at the half. Kyle Munroe and Clint Bateman each scored 10 to pace New Brunswick. Jared Budd nabbed 7 boards. …………………………………………………… Ontario crushed Nova Scotia 91-50 after leading 55-24 at the half. Tristan Blackwood paced Ontario with 22. Nathan Histed added 16, while Russell Hicks nabbed 4 boards. Chad Smith paced Nova Scotia with 12 points. Mark Brien added 10. …………………………………………………… Nova Scotia defeated Manitoba 90-82 after leading 44-31 at the half. Chad Smith paced Nova Scotia with 24. Buddy Husbands added 18, while Mark Brien grabbed 13 boards. Christopher Dyck led Manitoba with 21 points and 6 boards. Dale Legris scored 18. …………………………………………………… Ontario dumped New Brunswick 80-67 after leading 35-29 at the half. Tristan Blackwood paced Ontario with 18. Colin Latorme added 13, while Russell Hicks nabbed 13 boards. Jared Budd and Ryan de Winter each scored 14 to lead New Brunswick. De Winter added 6 boards. …………………………………………………… Ontario defeated Manitoba 89-77 as Tristan Blackwood scored 20 and Tyrone Mattison 14. Colin Latorme had 7 boards. Christopher Dyck led Manitoba with 16 points and 8 boards. Ryan Roper scored 13. Dale Legris nabbed 8 boards. Ontario led 47-43 at the half. …………………………………………………… Quebec defeated Manitoba 83-64 after leading 44-28 at the half. Gregory Page paced Quebec with 20 points and 5 boards. Marc-Andre D’Amours added 13. Christopher Dyck led Manitoba with 21. Dale Legris added 12, while Brendan Duerkson nabbed 5 boards. …………………………………………………… New Brunswick nipped Quebec 74-72 as Clint Bateman scored 17, along with 6 boards, and Brad McLean 12. The score was knotted at 33 at the half. Etienne Labreque paced Quebec with 17. Gregory Page added 14, while Jean-Francois Beaulieu nabbed 6 boards. …………………………………………………… Nova Scotia defeated New Brunswick 65-61 as Buddy Husbands scored 23. Nova Scotia led 39-29 at the half. Kyle Munroe and Clint Bateman each scored 10 to lead New Brunswick. …………………………………………………… New Brunswick thrashed Manitoba 84-52 as Bill Walker scored 20 and Jared Budd 10. Christopher Dyck led Manitoba with 12. Dale Legris added 11 and 2 boards. New Brunswick led 46-26 at the half. …………………………………………………… Nova Scotia defeated Quebec 70-54 after leading 34-30 at the half. Mark Brien paced Nova Scotia with 18. Nathan Johnson added 15, Buddy Husbands 15, along with 5 boards. Damien Gay and Mark Ross each nabbed 5 boards for Nova Scotia. Greg Page led Quebec with 16 points and 6 boards. Marc-Andre D’Amours had 9 points and 11 boards. Mark D’Agostino nabbed 6 boards.
In pool B play: …………………………………………………… Cody Berg scored 24 and grabbed 11 boards ad B.C. thumped Saskatchewan 86-66 after leading 46-29 at the half. Kurtis Walford added 18 points, while Tyler Hass nabbed 7 boards. Levin Vann led Saskatchewan with 21. David Tallman added 13. …………………………………………………… British Columbia thrashed Newfoundland as Kurtis Walford scored 25 and Cody Berg 16. Alex Smith grabbed 9 boards. BC led 45-17 at the half. Patrick Whelan led Newfoundland with 14. Nick Higgins added 10, while Freddy Baker nabbed 6 boards. …………………………………………………… Alberta whipped B.C. 81-62 after leading 41-31 at the half. Brendan Groat paced Alberta with 24. Allen Tollestrup added 23, while Henry Bekkering nabbed 7 boards. Sean Denison and Kurtis Walford each scored 16 to lead BC, while Cody Berg nabbed 9 boards. …………………………………………………… Saskatchewan nipped Newfoundland 79-76 as Levi Vann scored 26 and nabbed 10 boards. Rob Meidi added 18. Nick Higgins and Adam Lawlor paced Newfoundland with 16 apiece, while Ryan Martin added 6 boards. …………………………………………………… Henry Bekkering scored 40 on 15-19 from the floor, 3-4 from the arc and 11 boards as Alberta defeated Saskatchewan 100-93 in overtime. Alberta led 52-45 at the half. The score was knotted at 87 after regulation. Allen Tollestrup added 19 for Alberta, while Brendan Groat nabbed 18 boards. Levi Vann led Saskatchewan with 35 points and 10 boards and 5 treys. David Tallman scored 19. Bekkering notched three dunks, including one in overtime that buried Saskatchewan’s hopes. “He’s one of the best athletes in the country,” Alberta coach Mike Connolly told the Lethbridge Herald. “He’s got to go out and instill his athleticism on the other team, just dominate them athletically and when he does that, he can take over a game and that’s what we saw tonight.” Bekkering played all 40 minutes and said he was “really tired, my muscles hurt. I just had to play this game though and once you get out there, you just go as hard as you can, you can’t play lackadaisical, you just play hard.” Connolly said Saskatchewan “hung around. We watched them the night before and we knew they worked hard, they were very scrappy and they were a team that could burn you if they kept hanging around and they did.” Alberta stretched its lead to 10, then 12 points late in the third quarter but after taking a 72-63 lead into the final frame, Saskatchewan rallied behind lightning-quick guard Levi Vann. A Vann trey rallied Saskatchewan to within 78-77 with just over five minutes to play, setting up a wild finish. Luke Sayer would eventually hit the tying basket for Saskatchewan with 45 seconds left and after an Alberta miss, Jordan Harbridge hoisted an off-balance runner for the win. It fell short and it was 87-87 into the extra frame. “We didn’t play very good defence all night,” Bekkering said. “They made a lot of shots, a lot of three-pointers but I have to think that if we had played the kind of defence we can play, the game would have been a lot different.” Harbridge opened the scoring in overtime, off a first-possession steal but it was Saskatchewan’s last lead. Barrett Hunter’s only three points of the night restored the Alberta advantage and it came with the shot clock ready to expire. Bekkering then added a trey from the top of the key for a 93-89 lead and Alberta was away. “Hunter’s actually one of our better scorers but he hasn’t yet stepped up and given that to us yet, so that was a huge shot for him to hit,” Connolly said. “Our big three really came through for us. Allen Tollestrup with 24 points, Henry and Brendan Groat getting 23 and 18 rebounds. We count on those guys and they have to come through in big games and they stepped it up.” Saskatchewan coach Trevor Mirtle said “coming in, the guys were pretty confident that they could play with this team and the longer we kept it close I think Alberta got back on their heels. But give Alberta credit, they are a very good basketball team and then when you add Henry, well that was a huge factor.” …………………………………………………… Alberta defeated Newfoundland 99-62 after leading 44-33 at the half. Allen Tollestrup paced Alberta with 19. Richard Steed added 17, while Ammar Harknell nabbed 11 boards and Brendan Groat 10. Nick Higgins paced Newfoundland with 14. Freddy Boland added 12, while Adam Lawlor nabbed 4 boards and Brad Williams 3.
In the semi, Ontario dumped British Columbia 64-53 as Tyrone Mattison scored 17, Tristan Blackwood 17 and Sheldon Stewart scored 14, along with 9 boards. “I played really well and I stepped up my game,” said Stewart. “I scored. I rebounded. I did my job.” Sean Denison paced B.C. with 23 and 12 boards. Kurtis Walford added 12 points
In the other semi, Nova Scotia nipped Alberta 67-66 after leading 39-34 at the half. Alberta clawed back to tie the game with a minute to play but Nova Scotia’s Damian Gay scored with 1.8 seconds on clock to win it. Buddy Husbands led Nova Scotia with 16. Chad Smith added 15 and Mark Brien 11, along with 11 boards. “We had 1,800 people cheering against us and 24 people cheering for us,” said Nova Scotia coach Les Berry. Allen Tollestrup paced Alberta with 27. Berret Hunter added 16, while Henry Bekkering nabbed 8 boards. “The Alberta game was a big game. It was exciting playing in front of 2,500 people. It was the first time I have ever played in front of a crowd like that,” Nova Scotia guard Buddy Husbands told the Halifax Chronicle-herald. “Of course they were all going for Alberta but we kept our focus and kept on playing. We were just focused on running our plays and took the crowd out of it. No one expected Nova Scotia to make it to the medal round let alone the final game. But we wanted to go out and show that we could do it. … We were the underdogs, ranked ninth, but we didn’t let it stop us. We used it to motivate us. Everyone thought it was totally unexpected, but we believed in ourselves.”
The ninth-place Manitoba: Mo Williams, Jhon Menjivar, Jerwin Medina, Matt Opalko, Christopher Dyck, Anuj Sharma, Andrew Sharpe, Justin Jones, Brendan Duerkson, Dale (Dele?) Legris, Cole Borland, Ryan Roper, coach Garth McAlpine, assistant Jeff Laping.
In the 7th place playoff, Quebec ripped Newfoundland & Labrador 104-55 after leading 64-31 at the half. Marc-Andre D’Amours led Quebec with 20 points and 8 boards. Jean-Francois Beaulieu added 19. Brad Williams paced Newfoundland with 19. Nick Higgins added 15, along with 5 boards. Newfoundland & Labrador (coach Scott Lynch, assistant David Noseworthy) also included Matthew Spurrell, Freddy Baker, Steven Normore, Mike Ward, Adam Lawlor, Andrew Boland, Jamison Mercer, Ryan Martin, Patrick Whelan and Adam Cahill.
In the fifth-place match, New Brunswick (coached by Thom Gillespie and Dwight Dickinson) defeated Saskatchewan 70-60 as Jared Budd scored 11 and Ryan de Winter 11, while Brad McLean nabbed 3 boards. New Brunswick led 42-28 at the half. David Tallman led Saskatchewan with 19. Levi Vann added 18 and 5 boards.
In the bronze medal match, British Columbia avenged a round-robin loss to Alberta by an easy 71-43 count as Sean Denison scored 16 and grabbed 12 boards. Cody Berg added 14 points. BC led 33-18 at the half. Berett Hunter paced Alberta with 12. Allen Tollestrup added 8, while Ammar Harknell nabbed 6 boards.
In the final, Ontario thumped Nova Scotia 82-59 as game MVP Tristan Blackwood scored 20, Sheldon Stewart 17. Colin LaForme nabbed 7 boards. Mark Ross led Nova Scotia with 15. Chad Smith added 13, Mark Brien 9, along with 11 rebounds, and Buddy Husbands 8. Alex Howlett nabbed 11 boards. “There’s nothing else we could have done,” Nova Scotia coach Les Berry told the Halifax Daily News. “We played as hard as we could.” The game was tied at 22-22 after 10 minutes of play before a series of Nova Scotia turnovers allowed Ontario to rip off a 21-5 run to take a 48-33 lead at the half. Ontario switched to a zone defence and Nova Scotia faltered. “They’re very quick and very big,” said Berry. “They blocked 15 shots and a lot of their blocks led to quick, easy transition baskets.” Nova Scotia rallied to within 11 in the second half but ran out of steam. Nova Scotia out-rebounded Ontario 51-36.
The all-tourney team featured MVP Tristan Blackwood (Ontario); Sheldon Stewart (Ontario); Colin LaForme (Ontario); Henry Bekkering (Alberta); Buddy Husbands (Nova Scotia); Sean Denison (BC).
The second team selections were: Mark Ross (Nova Scotia); Kurtis Walford (BC); Allen Tollestrup (Alberta); Jared Budd (New Brunswick); Mark D’Agostino (Quebec)
The bronze medalists from British Columbia: Cody Berg; Jordan Craig; Sean Denison; Alex Duford; Tyler Hass; Tyrell Mara; Brent McLaren; Marc Roots; Alex Smith; Brian Smith; Kurtis Walford; Ryan Willms; coach Rich Goulet, assistant Del Komarninski, assistant Doug Dowell
The silver medalists from Nova Scotia: Tyler Richards; Nathan Johnson; Liam Shaw; Chad Smith; Thomas Conrad; Alex Howlett; Damian Gay; Mark Brien; Ryan Lebans; Mike Hogue; Mark Ross; Buddy Husbands; coach Les Berry, assistant Chad Wadden; assistant Mark Parker
The gold medalists from Ontario: Tristan Blackwood; Sheldon Stewart; Colin Latorme; Russell Hicks; Nathan Histed; Tresor Kalambay; Junior Kwajah; Tyrone Mattison; Steve McLean; Nick Pankerichin; Chris Shaw; Calvin Wigley; coach Tom Oliveri; assistant Jay McNeilly; associate coach Avery Brown