{"id":355,"date":"2017-01-31T20:32:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T20:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/?p=355"},"modified":"2017-01-31T20:33:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T20:33:32","slug":"montreal-open-goalball-tournament-2017-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Open Goalball Tournament 2017 Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"
Congratulations to everyone who participated in this annual tournament! \u00a0Final Standings:<\/div>\n
Women
\n<\/strong>1st place \u00a0Ontario All Blacks<\/div>\n
2nd place \u00a0USA Thorns<\/div>\n
3rd place USA Phantons<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Men<\/strong><\/div>\n
1st place California Cyclone<\/div>\n
2nd place British Columbia<\/div>\n
3rd place California Crown<\/p>\n

From CCB Blind Sports NS Chairperson and athlete on Nova Scotia provincial Goalball team, Peter Parsons:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Our girls started off the (final) day in their semi-final game against Ontario and lost 10-5.\u00a0 Ontario went on to beat Oregon in the finals.\u00a0 Our girls then lost to the Phantoms in a 2-0 game.\u00a0 The girls had an amazing tournament and gained valuable experience.\u00a0 I am so proud of them for how they played.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

We played the California Cyclones in the semi finals.\u00a0 We lost 7-4 in a good game.\u00a0 The Cyclones went on to beat BC 4-1 in the finals.\u00a0 In our bronze medal game, we lost to the California Crown 11-1.<\/div>\n
Our men’s and women’s teams will be heading to Michigan for our next tournament in less than four weeks time.<\/div>\n

A detailed report of how both NS teams made it to the finals:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Day 1:<\/div>\n
This evening we played the California Crown in our first game of the tournament.\u00a0 We lost 11-1.\u00a0 It was a tough loss, but we’re all very positive.\u00a0 We’ve been here before where we had a rough start to the tournament and bounced back.\u00a0 Tomorrow we play Pennsylvania, Alberta and Ontario.\u00a0 If we finish top 2 in our pool we will play in the semis on Sunday.\u00a0 The other pool has BC, California Cyclones, Quebec, New York and New Jersey.<\/div>\n
Nova-Q is our girls playing with a Quebec girl Nancy who is a 5 time paralympian and 2 time paralympic gold medalist.\u00a0 They played the Phantams, a team from the US who has the US starting centre.\u00a0 The girls tied them 5-5.\u00a0 There are 6 women’s teams.\u00a0 The girls have 4 games tomorrow.\u00a0 They play Ontario, Oregon Thorns, Australia and Alberta.\u00a0 If they finish top 4 they will make the semis on Sunday.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Day 2:<\/div>\n
\n
We started of our day playing against Pennsylvania and lost 5-2.\u00a0 We remained positive and focused on our next game against Alberta.\u00a0 We beat them 7-6.\u00a0 We were still in a situation where we could still finish 2nd in our pool if we beat Ontario in our last game and got help from some other teams.\u00a0 We beat Ontario 7-2.\u00a0 We then needed Ontario to tie or beat Pennsylvania in their last game of the day which would create a tie for 2nd with us and Alberta at 2 wins and 2 losses and we would finish 2nd based on the head to head with us having beaten Alberta.\u00a0 Ontario upset Pennsylvania in a close game 5-4.\u00a0 That put us in 2nd in our Pool.\u00a0 California Crown were 1st in our pool at 4 and 0.<\/div>\n
We play the first place team from the other pool in the California Cyclones tomorrow morning in the semis.\u00a0 California Crown play BC in the other semi.<\/div>\n
Our girls, Nova-Q, played against Ontario in their first game of the day.\u00a0 Ontario are the 9 time defending national champs.\u00a0 Our girls beat them 7-4.\u00a0 They then beat Alberta 9-2 and Australia 5-3.\u00a0 Their last game was for first place against the Oregon Thorns.\u00a0 They beat them 5-2 to finish first in the round robin with 4 wins and a tie.\u00a0 They play Ontario in the semis and the two US teams play in the other semi.<\/div>\n
So, both our men’s and women’s teams play in the semis tomorrow!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this annual tournament! \u00a0Final Standings: Women 1st place \u00a0Ontario All Blacks 2nd place \u00a0USA Thorns 3rd place USA Phantons Men 1st place California Cyclone 2nd place British Columbia 3rd place California Crown From CCB Blind Sports NS Chairperson and athlete on Nova Scotia provincial Goalball team, Peter Parsons: Our … Continue reading Montreal Open Goalball Tournament 2017 Recap<\/span> →<\/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\/355"}],"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=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}