{"id":1394,"date":"2024-01-29T22:01:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T22:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2024-01-29T22:01:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T22:01:25","slug":"nova-scotia-wins-big-at-22nd-montreal-open-goalball-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/?p=1394","title":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia wins big at 22nd Montreal Open Goalball Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>We are celebrating two major wins for Nova Scotia goalball!<\/h3>\n<p>The Nova Scotia women&#8217;s goalball team, for the first time in history, earned a medal, taking 2nd place to all-star team ON, at the 22nd Monteal Open Goalball Tournament last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Nova Scotia men&#8217;s goalball team came out on top, ending a 10-year dry spell and placing 1st, after defeating BC by 1 point in the gold medal game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/NS-men-gold-women-silver-Montreal-2024.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/NS-men-gold-women-silver-Montreal-2024.jpg\" alt=\"Nine people wearing medals around their next and smiling. Eight of them stand against a long goalball net and one sits on the floor in front of them.\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/NS-men-gold-women-silver-Montreal-2024.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/NS-men-gold-women-silver-Montreal-2024-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/NS-men-gold-women-silver-Montreal-2024-1024x649.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/NS-men-gold-women-silver-Montreal-2024-768x487.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/NS-men-gold-women-silver-Montreal-2024-1536x974.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe men&#8217;s team included Matt Gentleman, <span class=\"xv78j7m\" spellcheck=\"false\">Griffin Hiltz<\/span>, <span class=\"xv78j7m\" spellcheck=\"false\">Peter Parsons<\/span>, and Mason Smith. The women&#8217;s team included Contessa Scott, <span class=\"xv78j7m\" spellcheck=\"false\">Tarah Sawler<\/span>, <span class=\"xv78j7m\" spellcheck=\"false\">Alexis Nickerson<\/span>, and <span class=\"xv78j7m\" spellcheck=\"false\">Alexis Meunier<\/span>. Coach for both teams is <span class=\"xv78j7m\" spellcheck=\"false\">Linda MacRae Triff<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you <span class=\"xv78j7m\" spellcheck=\"false\">Association sportive des aveugles du Qu\u00e9bec &#8211; ASAQ<\/span> and all involved in hosting the event.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are celebrating two major wins for Nova Scotia goalball! The Nova Scotia women&#8217;s goalball team, for the first time in history, earned a medal, taking 2nd place to all-star team ON, at the 22nd Monteal Open Goalball Tournament last weekend. The Nova Scotia men&#8217;s goalball team came out on top, ending a 10-year dry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/?p=1394\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nova Scotia wins big at 22nd Montreal Open Goalball Tournament<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}