News Release

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C (GNB) – Emily Dean and Delayne Donahue captured New Brunswick’s first medal Monday, striking silver in the women’s team air target event at the Canada Winter Games in Prince George, B.C.

“It feels absolutely amazing and it’s an honour and privilege (to win New Brunswick’s first medal)," said Dean, following the competition.

“I knew we had a good chance of getting a medal,” added Donahue.

Donahue and Dean, who both attend St. Stephen High School, combined for a score of 793.3 to win silver, only 5.3 points shy of gold-medal winners Newfoundland and Labrador. Donahue and Dean have Tuesday off before returning to competition in the individual shooting events Wednesday. The men’s target shooting duo of Joshua Bastarache, of Dieppe, and Daniel Knockwood, of Dorchester, placed ninth in the men’s team competition.

The Fredericton curling foursome of Ben MacFarlane, Carter Small, Adam Tracy and Brent Wishart, lost a close match 7-6 to host Team B.C. in the morning draw then lost 10-1 to Team Alberta in the second draw.

The women’s hockey team lost a heartbreaker 5-4 to Team Newfoundland-Labrador in a shootout. Ringette dropped to a 1-2 record, losing 10-7 to Team Ontario.

The short track speed skaters had another great day on the rink with the women’s 3,000 metre relay, setting a new provincial record. Both the men’s and women’s 3,000 metre relay teams advanced to Thursday’s finals.

Rikki Doak, Sarah Gilbert, Heidi Evans, all of Fredericton, Courney Sarault of Moncton and Alyssa Seymour of Baxters Corner all advanced to 1,000 metre heats. Sarault, Evans, Gilbert and Doak also advanced to the 500 metre heats.

Brendan Corey, Roger Fulton, both of Fredericton, Seamus Smith, of Saint Andrews, and Brady Oakes, of Dalhousie, all advanced to the 500 metre heats.

“They (athletes) skated with heart today,” said Derrick MacLeod, Team New Brunswick’s speed skating head coach.

The wheelchair basketball team lost 74-40 to Team Quebec  in its first day of competition.

In other Team New Brunswick news, the long track oval speed skating event is being moved to Fort St. John. The above-zero temperatures forced the Canada Games Host Society to enact its contingency plan to shift the event to the indoor facility there from Prince George’s outdoor oval. Athletes travel to Fort St. John Tuesday with competition to start Wednesday.

Following are Team New Brunswick results for Monday, Feb. 16, at the 2015 Canada Winter Games in Prince George, B.C.

Alpine (Purden)

Women Giant Slalom Para, Christel Robichaud (Moncton) DNF

Women Giant Slalom Able, Jennifer Kristin Clarke (Fredericton), 23^rd,  Sam Piekarski (Rothesay), 25^th, Lucy Black (Fredericton), 38^th, Kay Mills (Fredericton), 50^th, Alexie Laplante (Edmundston), DNF, Olivia McLean (Penobsquis), DNF

Archery (CJNSC)

Recurve individual male, Hailey Baisley 1,094 points, (fourth position)

Recurve individual female, Sarah MacDermaid, 839 points, (seventh position)

Compound individual male, Christopher Golden, 1,150 points (fourth position)

Compound individual female, Alyssa Murphy, 1,126 points (sixth position)

Artistic Gymnastics

Men’s team event: The NB boys team was 8^th overall in team competitions with 268.343 after six events. (Evan Crossman, Moncton,  Patrick Talbot, Quispamsis, Antoine and Thomas Gautreau, Rothesay, Cameron MacMaster, Quispamsis).

Men’s Curling (Prince George Golf & Curling Club)

N.B. 6  B.C 7

NB 000 102 021 0  6

BC 300 020 100 1  7

N.B. 1  Alb.10

Women’s Hockey

Newfoundland and Labrador 5 New Brunswick 4 (shootout)

N.B. – Janie Poitras, Janelle Graham, Lindsay Donovan and Grace Graham

Ringette (Coliseum)                 

Ontario 10 New Brunswick 7

NB: Dominik LeBlanc, 3, Jenny Snowdon, 2, Miguelle Proulx, 1, Britney Snowdon, 1

Short Track Speed Skating (KIN 1)

Men`s 500 m preliminaries:  Brendan Corey (Fredericton) 1^st in heat, Roger Fulton (Fredericton) 2^nd in heat, Paul Tremblay (Saint John) 4^th in heat, Seamus Smith (Saint Andrews), 1^st in heat, Brady Oakes (Dalhousie) 2^nd in heat

Women’s 500 m preliminaries: Courtney Sarault (Moncton),2^nd in heat, Heidi Evans (Fredericton), 1^st in heat,  Sarah Gilbert (Fredericton), 2^nd in heat, Rikki Doak (Fredericton) 1^st in heat and, Alyssa Seymour (Baxters Corner) DNF.

Men’s 1000 m preliminaries: Seamus Smith (Saint Andrews), 2^nd in heat, Brendan Corey (Fredericton) 1^st in heat, Brady Oakes (Dalhousie) 2^nd in heat, Roger Fulton (Fredericton) 1st in heat, and Paul Tremblay (Saint John) 2^nd in heat

Women’s 1000m preliminaries: Rikki Doak (Fredericton) and Alyssa Seymour (Baxters Corner)  1^st and 2^nd respectively in heat, Courtney Sarault (Moncton),1st in heat, Heidi Evans (Fredericton), 1^st in heat,  Sarah Gilbert (Fredericton), 2^nd in heat,

Men`s 3000m relay semis: Brendan Corey (Fredericton), Brady Oakes (Dalhousie), Roger Fulton (Fredericton) and Paul Tremblay (Saint John) 1^st in heat

Women`s 3000m relay semis: Rikki Doak (Fredericton), Courtney Sarault (Moncton), Heidi Evans (Fredericton), Sarah Gilbert (Fredericton), 1^st in heat

Target Shooting (College of New Caledonia)

Men’s team air rifle finals, Joshua Bastarache, and Daniel Knockwood, 1067.3 points (ninth place)

Women`s team air rifle finals: Emily Dean and Delayne Donahue, 793.3 points (silver medalists)

Wheelchair basketball (Duchess Park Secondary School)

New Brunswick 40 Quebec 74

NB: Jacob Fudge 20, Sean Wilson, 11, John Collins, 4, Alexandre Hayward, 3, Colin Higgins, 2.