Another athlete from the Tri-Cities will have to make room in her suitcase for a medal from the Canada Winter Games in Red Deer, Alb.
Coquitlam speed skater Sherilyn Chung, who competes for the Port Coquitlam Lightning, was part of the team that won bronze in the women’s 3,000-metre relay in the short track event last Friday at the Grant W. Harris Canada Games Centre. The BC team ascended the podium after a review disqualified the team from Ontario.
Chung skated with a pair of sister teammates, Jane and Annabelle Green from Mission, and Burnaby’s Samantha and Ainsley Spencer. But she said she didn’t feel like the odd skater out without sibling support.
“I’m now part of the family,” she said.
Other notable results from the competition’s first week include:
• Coquitlam biathlete Andre Secu failed in his quest for a fourth medal from the games, when he finished sixth in the 12.5 km. individual race last Thursday. He previously won bronze medals in the 7.5 km male sprint, the 10 km male pursuit, as well as another bronze as part of the men’s 3x7.5 km relay race.
• Coquitlam’s Ashley Robb scored a goal and added two assists, but her BC ringette team lost its bronze medal game to Manitoba, 6-4, last Friday.
• Coquitlam hockey player Matthew Seminoff scored a pair of goals to lead Team BC to a 7-2 win over New Brunswick and a seventh-place finish in the men’s hockey competition. Thomas Milic, who’s also from Coquitlam, made 27 saves to earn the victory in net.
• Port Moody hockey player Jenna Buglioni scored three goals to lead her Team BC women’s hockey team to a 6-1 win over Alberta in their first game of the competition on Sunday.
• Local curlers Hayato Sato, from Coquitlam, and Joshua Miki, who’s from Port Coquitlam, got their competition off to a good start Sunday with a 4-3 win over Quebec, Sunday at the Pidherney Curling Centre.
The Canada Winter Games wrap up March 3.
