Team South tops medal standings at Manitoba Games

It was a busy week in Thompson, as the northern community hosted the Manitoba Winter Games.

Athletes from across the region participated, bringing home plenty of hardware.

Steinbach’s Brooklyn Wiebe carried the opening ceremonies flag for Team South, with Oakbank’s Connor Kent representing Winnipeg Gold. Bennett Mead was selected to represent Team East. All three athletes participated in curling events at the games.

Kent would go on to skip his team to a gold medal finish.

Team South were the top finishers at the games, racking up 86 medals to tie with Winnipeg Gold for the overall standings. South boasted 32 gold medals to Winnipeg Gold’s 26.

Four of those Team South golds were hung around the neck of Niverville’s Mackenna Reimer. The speed skater had an outstanding week, topping the podium in the 200 m, 1500 m, 2000 m. She was given the overall gold medal for the U14 age group, adding on a silver in the 400 m and a bronze in the relay and 3000 m.

Athletes from the region contributed 15 medals to Team South in gymnastics. Five of the region’s six representatives from wrestling medaled in their weight classes, leading to an overall team silver finish.

Team South picked up three medals in hockey/ringette, winning silver in U14 ringette and bronze in 13 male and U14 female hockey.

Futsal made it’s debut at the Manitoba Games this year, with the U14 goaltenders on both the male and female gold medal-winning Team East hailing from Oakbank. Mackenzie and Emmet Rodgers backstopped their respective teams to first-place finished in the event’s inaugural Futsal tournament.

MANITOBA GAMES MEDALISTS

TEAM SOUTH

GOLD

Mackenna Reimer (Niverville) – Speed skating U14 200 m, 1500 m, 2000 m, overall, also 400 m silver and bronze in relay and 3000 m

Kaylee Siemens (St Jean) – Speed Skating U18 1000 m and 500 m, also overall silver

Speed Skating Mixed Relay – Featuring Kaylee and Greysen Siemens

Lilyanne Reuter (Niverville) – 57 kg wrestling

Noah Fast (Niverville) – 76 kg wrestling

Sam Dacquay (St Adolphe) – 63 kg wrestling

Neveah Klassen (Kleefeld) – Gymnastics balance beam, also floor exercise bronze

Charlie Zajac (Landmark) – Gymnastics all-around and floor exercise, also bronze in uneven bars

Savannah Matthews (Mitchell) – Gymnastics vault Xcel

Amelia Czigler (New Bothwell) – Gymnastics uneven bars, also bronze in vault

Ariah Anderson-Merritt (Ste Genevieve) – Gymnastics floor exercise gold, also silver all-around

Elliette Funk (Steinbach) – Gymnastics balance beam, also silver in floor exercise

SILVER

Neveah Harder (Mitchell) – Gymnastics floor exercise, also all-around bronze

U15 Curling – Aralynne Gerow (Lorette), Alicia Callewaert (Ste Genevieve), Amelie McLean (Ste Anne) – Plus Winnipeg’s Carlynn Anderson

Ringette U14 – Abi Barkman (Blumenort), Alexa Thiessen (Blumenort), Emma Schroeder, (La Broquerie), Leah MacGillivray (Lorette), Brookke Krahn (Lorette), Blaire Campbell (Lorette), Savanah Buzan (Niverville) Tess Klassen (Niverville), Caitlyn Loeppky (Niverville) and Raya Harel (Steinbach)

Team Wrestling U16 – Lilyanne Reuter, Benjamin Reuter, Ryan Unrau, Noah Fast Sam Dacquay and Emma Knelsen (St Malo)

Futsal U14 Female – Brooklyn Goertzen (Grunthal), Maggie Kennedy (Steinbach) and Kari Born (Kleefeld)

BRONZE

Kai Maczuga (Grunthal) – Archery U17 team bronze

Lauren Pauls (Grande Pointe) – Gymnastics vault Xcel

Malaya Tanner (St Pierre) – Gymnastics floor exercise

Benjamin Reuter (Niverville) – 57 kg wrestling

Ryan Unrau (Niverville) – 85 kg wrestling

U13 Male Hockey – Cole Tetrault (La Broquerie), Dryden Kuhl (Mitchell), Carter Sawatzky (Niverville)

U14 Female Hockey – Isabella Blahnik (Grande Pointe), Alison Charles (Lorette), Kaydence Ewbank (Morris), Emma Peters (Morris), Kadence Clavelle (St Adolphe)

TEAM EAST

GOLD

Mackenzie and Emmet Rodgers – U14 female and male Futsal

Sophie St Hilaire (Dugald) – Gymnastics Floor Exercise (12-13), also won silver in all around Xcel and Uneven Bars.

Patricia Paz (Oakbank) – Gymnastics Vault, also balance beam silver

Fiona Black (Oakbank) – Gymnastics Uneven Bars, also Balance beam silver and all around bronze

SILVER

Sierra Smith (Oakbank) – Mixed doubles curling

OTHER

Vivienne Gregoire (Oakbank) – Archery Recurve U17 Bronze and Mixed team Silver with Winnipeg Gold

Connor Kent (Oakbank) – Skipped Winnipeg Gold team to gold medal in curling

Bregan Romand (Steinbach) – Winnipeg Gold Ringette U14 Bronze