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NIAGARA, ONT.:<\/strong> Nova Scotia has finished first in the round robin in Rugby Sevens at the Canada Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Bluenosers finished at 3-1-0 (won-draw-loss) after a pair of victories on Aug. 9 after going 1-1-0 on day one of competition for them on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n N.S. defeated Saskatchewan 15-10 on a late try and then trounced N.B. 31-5 to conclude their play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The team awaited the Alberta-Ontario result to see if they would secure first, and with the Ontario 38-0 win over Alberta that is what they did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”8″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Against Sask., Emily Dodge of Fall River kept up her scoring prowess with another try that cut the Sask. Lead to half early in the second half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sask. had got out to a 10-0 lead at half, before N.S. rallied for the win, with the winnings core a try by Izzy Goncalves of Wellington at 7:10 of the second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Against N.B., Dodge had two converts in the win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”7″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Faith Tilley led the way for Nova Scotia with two try\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n N.S. is winner of Pool A and will play in the semi-final against the winner of Game 21 (2a vs 3B) which is set for Wednesday at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The N.S. team will play in the semi at 6:22 Atlantic time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”78″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”156″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”169″] [adrotate banner=”111″] NIAGARA, ONT.: Nova Scotia has finished first in the round robin in Rugby Sevens at the Canada Games. The Bluenosers finished at 3-1-0 (won-draw-loss) after a pair of victories on Aug. 9 after going 1-1-0 on day one of competition for them on Monday. N.S. defeated Saskatchewan 15-10 on a late […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[2,4023,4024,255],"class_list":["post-30599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-fall-river","tag-izzy-goncalves","tag-rugby-sevens","tag-team-nova-scotia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}