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Kweens grab second, Kodiaks just miss podium in The Pas ball tourney

This year’s installment of the Bill McDonald Memorial Basketball Tournament in The Pas brought mixed results for Hapnot Collegiate, Frontier Collegiate and Creighton Community School.
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This year’s installment of the Bill McDonald Memorial Basketball Tournament in The Pas brought mixed results for Hapnot Collegiate, Frontier Collegiate and Creighton Community School.

The Hapnot Kweens, Kings and Creighton Kodiaks’ girls’ squad headed down for the weekend event, hosted by the Margaret Barbour Spartans. Both teams were pitted against each other in the same pool.

Hapnot took down Gilbert Plains 75-31 and the Kodiaks followed suit, dumping the same squad 72-45, setting up a good old cross-border grudge match for first place in the pool.

Hapnot came out on top in a close 55-46 game, sending the Kweens to the tournament championship game.

The Kweens would face Thompson’s R.D. Parker Trojans but were overmatched, losing 69-41 to the larger school. Creighton, which entered the bronze medal game after their loss to the Kweens, faced the host Spartans and lost 55-44.

In the boys’ draw, Hapnot had less luck. After starting their bracket with a 67-34 win against the Helen Betty Osborne Ininiw Huskies from Norway House, the Kings lost a 87-67 offensive slugfest to Porcupine Plain. The Frontier Collegiate Raiders from Cranberry Portage, playing in the opposite pool, had similar luck, getting downed 62-37 by the host Spartans in their opener but upsetting R.D. Parker 48-41.

The two teams’ 1-1 records through pool play led to Hapnot and Frontier facing off in the bronze medal game. The Raiders got the better of the Kings, finishing third place in the tournament and pushing Hapnot off the podium.

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