Island pair win karate gold medals
Island athletes reached the midway point of the 2023 Canada Winter Games in Prince Edward Island with a gold rush in karate and wheelchair basketball and hope for the Victoria Royals in hockey.
Elise Froese of Saanichton and Nicholas van Bakel of Victoria captured the gold medal with the B.C. team Saturday in wheelchair basketball by beating defending-champion Alberta in the final. Morgan Jackson of Courtenay, a World U-18 champion with Canada, will represent B.C. in women’s hockey in the second half of the Games beginning today. Other Island athletes in P.E.I. for the 2023 Canada Winter Games include Chris Parkinson of Comox, Jesse Tiede of Black Creek, Graham Lee of Courtenay and Emily Bowles of Victoria in curling, Zoe Greze-Kozuki of Campbell River in freestyle skiing and Dylan Stevenson of Royston and Kate Rowsthorn of Shawnigan Lake in snowboarding.
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