Thompson’s Megan Szabo is doing more than her fair share when it comes to collecting medals for the Norman region at the Power Smart 2016 Manitoba Summer Games in Steinbach, having picked up a silver medal in the long jump and a bronze medal in the 80-metre race in the first two days of competition.
Lance Bobesko of Thompson has also contributed to Norman’s total of six medals – three silver and three bronze – as of the end of competition Aug. 9, winning silver in the midget male high jump. He was also a member of the bronze-medal winning 4x100-metre midget male relay team and of the mixed 4x200-metre relay team, which finished ninth. Bobesko was also ninth in the midget male 100-metre race.
Szabo also placed fifth in the bantam female 150-metre race and was a member of the fourth-place bantam female 4x100 metre relay team with Morgan Johnson, Emma Tomchuk and Carissa Kennedy that also finished fourth.
Tomchuk was also fourth in the bantam female discus and sixth in the bantam female standing long jump. Kennedy was eighth in the bantam female high jump and Taylor Kristjanson was 10th in the midget female discus competition.
In the basketball competition, Norman’s male and female teams both wrapped up their tournaments with consolation round wins, the boys beating Interlake 73-49 to finish seventh overall and the girls knocking off Parkland 37-29 for seventh place as well.
The boys opened the tournament with a 90-58 loss to Eastman Aug. 8, then beat Interlake 66-40 later that day before falling 78-62 to Eastman in their first consolation round game.
The girls were 45-31 losers to Parkland in their opening game and then fell 73-51 to Eastman in their second round-robin match and 60-40 to Westman in their first game of the consolation round.
