Pictured above: Emma Steves awaits the results of the Women’s Aerial Finals. Emma placed 6th overall. A best ever for NS.

Pictured to the left: NS Free-stylers Austin Landry and Colin Sutherland await the results of the Men’s Aerial Finals.

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Freestylers Thrill Hometown CrowdIt was a great day at Wentworth where our freestyle skiers were competing in Aerials. Our team brought some big air and thrilled the crowd with ‘SICK’ runs all day. Three members of our team made it to the finals. Emma Stevens (pictured below) was the top Nova Scotian finishing 6th overall in Women’s Aerials. Emma was the first Nova Scotian ever to reach a finals in Aerials. Our freestylers are back in action today competing in Moguls. Check out the jumps today @ www.facebook.com/teamns. Austin Landry placed 11th while Colin Sutherland placed 12th in the Men’s Aerials.

Nova Scotia Canada Games Team Newsletter Issue 7 • Febuary 17

Recap of Day 5 EventsIt was another active day for Team Nova Scotia at the Games yesterday. Wheelchair basketball played hard and won their second game in a row. They defeated AB with a score of 77-55. Chris Wade had 36 points and 14 rebounds. Nice win, Nova Scotia! They play today at 11am and 3pm at Citadel High.

Our women’s curling team had another win today against BC, with a nail-biting finish and final score of 5-4. They placed 1st in Pool A and play again on Friday at 10am in a Semifinal.

In Ringette, our girls played well, but lost 8-3 against Quebec. They’ll take on BC tomorrow at 11:30am in Cole Harbour.

In Squash, our Women’s team defeated MB 4-0, while our Men’s team lost to Manitoba 4-0. Both teams competed hard throughout the matches.

In Target Shooting (Air Rifle) Nicole Marshall was the top Nova Scotian placing 10th. Teammate Merissa Young placed 18th. On the mens side, Eric Higgins placed 15th, while Caleb Purdy placed 16th.

In Biathlon Men’s Pursuit, Ciaran Dunn placed 33rd, Cole MacDonell 34th, Patrick Hen-nessey 35th and Mike Castein 38th. On the women’s side Francis Castein placed 34th, Amanda McLaughlin 35th and Victoria Dimick 36th.

The guys were on fire at last night’s gymnastics All Around competition. Evan Cruz placed 5th with a score of 75.85, coming 2nd in pommel horse and tying for 1st on the parallel bars, Ste-phen Clouter placed 15th with a score of 72.55 and Padraec Robinson placed 17th with a score of 71.600. Finals for both Men and Women go today at 11:40am and 5:30pm

In Hockey, Nova Scotia lost to a strong ON team in a valiant effort by a score of 5-3. Our team should be proud as they battled the entire game and gave themselves a chance to win. They play again today at 4pm in Dartmouth vs. MB.

Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records. -William A. Ward

rSchedule of EventsThursday, February 17

Artistic GymnasticsCanada Games Centre11:40 All Event (f)17:55 All Event (m)

Freestyle SkiingSki Wentworth 10:15 Moguls 13:30 Moguls (Finals)

Hockey (m)Metro Centre11:3016:0019:30

Dartmouth Sportsplex11:3016:0019:30

RingetteCole Harbour Place11:30 NS vs BC

Short Track Speed SkatingSt. Margaret’s Centre13:30 1500m Super15:30 3000m Relay

SquashSaint Mary’s University9:00 (m)12:00 (f)15:30 (f)18:30 (m)

Target ShootingSackville High School9:00 Air Pistol (f) 10:45 Air Pistol (m)13:30 Air Pistol (f)14:15 Air Pistol (m)

Wheelchair BasketballCitadel High School11:00 NS vs. BC15:00 NS vs. NB

I Love NS Day Photos

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Members of our Biathlon, Gymnastics, Ringette and Freestyle Ski teams take in the I Love Nova Scotia Day Festivities in Celebration Square. Check out tonights concert with Nova Scotia’s own Matt Mays!!