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Tennis pair aces a medal for Manitoba
Doubles bronze in men's event 'feels awesome'
Team Manitoba's Chris Yachison, from Winnipeg, carries his scull after competing in men's singles rowing on the Southwest River in Clinton, P.E.I., on Thursday. (ANDREW VAUGHAN / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
An embattled Manitoba tennis team, medal-less and playing without a team member who was quarantined with what proved to be a non-existent case of the H1N1 flu, finally got some good news at the Canada Games in Prince Edward Island on Thursday.
Team members Sean Bailey and Chad Lacap won bronze for Manitoba in the men's doubles event, the first medal of the Games for the Manitoba tennis team and just the second of any kind for Manitoba in P.E.I. Triathlete Sarah-Anne Brault won silver for Manitoba on Tuesday.
Bailey, 17, and Lacap, 15, defeated Alberta in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3, to capture the bronze.
"It feels awesome," said Lacap, who's going into Grade 11 at Maples Collegiate next month. "We stuck to our game plan. We played it tough."
Lacap and Bailey have been practice partners at the Winnipeg Winter Club for the past five years, but Bailey said the two had been playing doubles together only since being selected for Manitoba's Games team barely a month ago.
"We're pretty comfortable with each other," said Bailey.
Thursday's bronze medal was a bit of a going-away present for Bailey, who begins first-year classes next week at Tennessee's Austin Peay State University, an NCAA Division 1 school.
Bailey, a graduate of Miles Mac, will be attending on a tennis scholarship. "I'm pretty pumped," he said. "I come home for a day and then I have to leave right away because classes begin Aug. 27. "Tennis has been pretty good to me."
It hasn't been so good for the rest of the Manitoba tennis team, however. The team has been shut out of the medals except for the lone bronze and on top of that, player Muzeen Ismath was quarantined in P.E.I. this week with a possible case of H1N1 flu. Ismath was released Thursday night after the test results came back negative.
A Manitoba team official said Thursday that Bailey and Lacap had both been forbidden to discuss their stricken teammate.
Manitoba's medal tally of two has the province way down in the medal standings in P.E.I. Quebec is dominating the competition with 32 medals, including 10 gold, followed by B.C. with 21 medals and Ontario with 20.
Manitoba's medal tally of two puts the province in seventh place, two medals behind sixth-place Saskatchewan and one ahead of New Brunswick.
Newfoundland, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon and P.E.I. have all yet to medal.
Manitoba was shut out in rowing finals on Thursday but has three more chances to medal in finals today. Both the province's beach volleyball teams will also play in bronze-medal games today.
The province's softball team will play in the page playoff 3 vs. 4 game today against Quebec after finishing the round-robin alone in third place at 7-2.
The winner of Manitoba-Quebec will play the loser of today's 1 vs. 2 game between B.C. and Ontario in the semi-final Saturday. The winner of that game will then advance to the final to play the winner of B.C.-Ontario.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition August 21, 2009 C6
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