Runners bring Manitoba medal total to 18
Friday's 8-medal haul includes basketball, rowing
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- Baseball male: silver
- 4 x 100 female: silver
- 100m Special Olympics female
- Rowing double scull female: bronze
- 800m male: bronze
- 800m female: silver
- Rowing single scull female: gold
- Basketball female: bronze
- FRIDAY'S MEDAL COUNT: 8
Team Manitoba picked up eight more medals Friday at the 2017 Canada Summer Games, bringing their overall total haul to 18.
Rower Emma Gray started the day off with a gold-medal finish in the female single scull event at the Kenora Rowing Club Friday morning, with an official time of 7:57.11.
Then she and teammate Gabby Yakemow followed that up with a bronze in the double sculls later in the day.
Those medals add to the bronze Gray won in the quadruple sculls on Thursday with Manitoba's women's rowing team. It's also the second bronze for Yakemow, adding to her win with the Manitoba team in quadruple sculls.
Gray told CBC Thursday the group knew they had a shot to make it to the podium.
"We kind of just kept our heads forward and made a pact that the only way we were going to see a boat was if we were ahead of them," she said.
Gray is also the flag-bearer for Team Manitoba.
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Basketball bronze, silver run
Team Manitoba's female basketball team added to Friday's total with a bronze in the afternoon.
They downed Alberta 76-63 at the University of Winnipeg's Duckworth Centre.
<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TeamToba?src=hash">#TeamToba</a> wins BRONZE! Congratulations to the female basketball team who defeated Alberta 76-63! 🥉<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HerdOfUs?src=hash">#HerdOfUs</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CGBasketball?src=hash">#CGBasketball</a> <a href="https://t.co/kkGpzKuDf8">pic.twitter.com/kkGpzKuDf8</a>
—@TeamTobaThe province's runners then hit the podium when Shane Dillon won bronze in the men's 800-metre final, just a few minutes before Victoria Tachinski took silver in the female 800-metre final.
That was her second medal of the Games, after she won gold in the 400 metre on Thursday.
She quickly scored a third, when Manitoba's women's 4 x 100-metre relay team took silver.
Regan Hofley also won her second track medal of the Games. She took home silver in the female Special Olympics 200-metre final on Friday, following up her silver the previous day in the Special Olympics 100-metre.
<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TeamToba?src=hash">#TeamToba</a>'s Shane Dillon takes BRONZE in men's 800-metre final! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HerdOfUs?src=hash">#HerdOfUs</a> <a href="https://t.co/M1sxxXsKAD">pic.twitter.com/M1sxxXsKAD</a>
—@TeamToba
The day ended with a silver in men's baseball for Team Manitoba, in a 3-1 loss to Saskatchewan.
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