On The Home Front

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This article was published 01/02/2011 (5645 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

— Team Canada wheelchair basketball team veteran Joey Johnson of Lorette has once again been selected to represent Canada at the 2011 Parapan American Games Nov. 12-20, in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Of the 12 selected, Johnson is among 10 who were members of the team that won a silver medal at the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing.

The Parapan American Games double as Canada’s opportunity to qualify for the 2012 London Paralympics, where the team will be shooting for a fourth consecutive podium finish.

“Our quest for another gold-medal finish begins anew,” said Team Canada head coach Jerry Tonello in a release. The team was selected following completion of a recent week-long camp in Toronto.

Canada won back-to-back Paralympic gold medals in 2000 and 2004, and have reached the podium at five of the last six consecutive World Championships dating back to 1990.

 

— Addie Miles, best known for her skills as a forward with the University of Manitoba Bisons women’s hockey team, had four assists for Team Canada in 9-0 win over the United States at the 2011 Winter Universiade in Erzurum, Turkey. Canada is 4-0 and Miles has five points in the Universiade.

Canada (4-0) plays Turkey (0-4) on Wednesday and the playoffs will start for Team Canada on Friday.

 

— The Edmonton Drillers beat the Winnipeg Alliance 5-3 in a Canadian Major Indoor Soccer League game played Sunday at Gateway Community Centre.

Scoring goals for the Alliance were, Danny Demelo, Jordan Goetting and Josh Hofmeister.

 

— Quick and easy access to Manitoba Junior Hockey League scores and updates are now only fingertips away.

The league unveiled its new service, MJHL Mobile, Monday. It’s a scaled-down version of the full MJHL website site that provides access to game scores, standings and league leaders pages. Fans visiting the MJHL website will see an easy-to-access button.

“It’s a fast and efficient method of getting current and up to date information about what is happening around the league,” said league commissioner Kim Davis in a release. “It’s called MJHL Mobile because it is built for smartphone users who want current information about the league while they are on the go.”

 

— University of Manitoba Bisons second-year swimmer Riley Pickerl made the CIS standard in the 1,500-metre freestyle on the weekend, finishing in eighth place in a time of 16:03.87 at the Canada West championships in Vancouver..

Pickerl was also ninth (won B final), in the men’s 400-metre freestyle in 4:01.75. Other top-10 finishes for Manitoba were fifth-year Casey Gergely winning the B final and finishing ninth overall in the men’s 100-metre butterfly (58.95) while third-year Julie Therrien was 10th in the women’s 50-metre freestyle (27.34).

Braeden Taylor won two bronze medals in the 50 and 100-metre breaststroke (29.47 and 1:03.32).

Both the men’s and women’s teams finished sixth for the meet.