LLOYDMINSTER — A summer to remember for members of Teams Rivers West volleyball as they captured a gold medal at the Saskatchewan Summer Games in Lloydminster.
The female volleyball roster for Team Rivers West includes two North Battleford athletes, Layla Russel and Andie Gerein, along with North Battleford Coach, Anna Atcheynum. Other female volleyball athletes include: Kenzie McGillivray – Provost; Paige Brown – Lloydminster; Brooke Wicks – Maidstone; Adyson Krauss – Kitscoty; Katie Smith – Lloydminster; Ezri Vidal – Meadow Lake; Abbie Redden – Lloydminster; Elizabeth Garchinski – Lloydminster; Cody Gratton – Lloydminster; Blakely Gervais – Lloydminster; and Coach Cory Gratton – Lloydminster who joined Anna Atcheynum.
Team Rivers West beat Team Lakeland in two straight matches to cap off their Summer Games experience, going through three days of competition undefeated. Wins came over Prairie Central and Â鶹ÊÓƵ West in pool play, while playoff rounds led them through Regina, Prairie Central and Lakeland.
In the other medals of the five won for Team Rivers West were:
Ada Elizabeth Jordan Dillon from Onion Lake was the female individual play golf bronze medal winner.
Ada was also part of the silver medal winning female golf team, along with teammates, Parker Gracen Lynelle Laliberte from Meadow Lake and Gabriela Roa from Latin (as listed on Summer Games website).
The male golf team, for Rivers West District, won bronze and included athletes Shae Maunula from North Battleford, Carson Mazzei from Lloydminster and Noah Piggot from Meadow Lake (as listed on SSG website)
Norah Hurd and Kaebri Macnab, both from Lloydminster captured the female doubles tennis bronze medal at these games.
