By Chad Klassen

Close to 45 Kamloops athletes coming home with medals from B.C. Summer Games

Jul 23, 2018 | 12:03 PM

KAMLOOPS — Close to 45 Kamloops athletes are coming home from the B.C. Summer Games in Cowichan with hardware around their neck — some with multiple medal wins — after outstanding performances during the three-day competition.

In golf, 16-year-old Adam Niles, who plays out of Rivershore, captured the boys’ championship on Saturday with a one-under 69 to finish the tournament at plus four. He won by two shots over first-round leader John Kahlert from Maple Ridge.

Also coming back with gold medals are the three Kamloops athletes who helped the Thompson Okanagan boys’ soccer team win 2-1 in the final over Zone 4 Fraser River. 

Two more athletes from Kamloops won gold after they helped the Thompson Okanagan girls’ 5-on-5 basketball team capture the title. They beat the fraser valley 41-30 in the championship game on Sunday to win it all and didn’t lose a game all tournament.

Both Thompson Okanagan Zone 2 lacrosse teams earned a pair of podium finishes. The box lacrosse team, with five Kamloops athletes, lost 10-5 in the gold medal game to Vancouver Island-Central Coast, settling for a silver medal. The field lacrosse team that had 10 athletes bounced back after a 1-2 round robin to win bronze over Fraser Valley 10-8. They had been defeated 11-1 by Fraser Valley in the round robin. 

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The baseball team, featuring seven players from Kamloops, are coming back with bronze around their neck. The Zone 2 squad shut out Zone 4 Fraser River in the third-place game on Sunday. The team finished the round robin undefeated in three games before losing 5-1 to Vancouver Coastal in the semi-finals.

On the track, Kamloops’ Issa Diaou earned a silver medal in the boys’ pole vault with a jump of 2.90 metres. 

In wrestling, Alex Rome from Kamloops has a silver medal to show off, losing in the boys 74 kilogram final to Cory Haberman of Vancouver 

In the pool, local swimmer Jake Gysel out of the Kamloops Classics Swim Club is taking home two bronze medals. The first came in the boys’ 100 metre breaststroke final with a time of 1:12.89, while the second came in the 200 metre breaststroke where Gysel finished in third at 2:35.42.

Also in the pool, three Kamloops athletes won bronze in the 13-15 team synchronized swimming competition, including Kiera Fawcett and Kate Liebe, who also earned silver medals in the 13-15 duet. 

On the water, Liam Grover and Tate Solomonson from Kamloops crossed the finish line in third in the K-2 500 metre event. Emma Guertin and Kierra Willis won two bronze medals in the K-2 500 and 2,000 metre events. Guertin teamed up with Grover and Solomonson to earn another bronze in the C-4 500 metre event as well. 

In triathlon, Kamloops’ Kasha Victoratos claimed four bronze medals — one in the girls super sprint triathlon with a time of 50:44 with the others coming in the F-1 triathlon, duathlon, and aquathon events. In the boys’ aquathon, made up of just the swimming and running portions, Max Angove finished third as well with a time of 9:01.

The Zone 2 team finished fifth in the medal standings with 80 medals with Kamloops athletes accounting for 24 of the team and individual medal wins.