Runners bring Manitoba medal total to 18

Team Manitoba picked up eightmoremedals Friday at the 2017 Canada Summer Games, bringing their overall total haul to 18.

Rower Emma Graystarted the day off with a gold-medal finish in the female single scull event at theKenoraRowing Club Friday morning, with an official time of 7:57.11.

Then she and teammateGabbyYakemowfollowed that up with a bronze in the double scullslater in the day.

Those medals addto the bronze Graywon in the quadruple sculls on Thursday with Manitoba's women's rowing team. It's also the second bronze for Yakemow, adding to her win with the Manitoba team in quadruple sculls.

Gray told CBC Thursday the group knew they had a shot to make it to the podium.

"We kind of just kept our heads forward and made a pact that the only way we were going to see a boat was if we were ahead of them," she said.

Gray is also the flag-bearer for Team Manitoba.

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Basketball bronze, silver run

Team Manitoba's female basketball team added to Friday's total with a bronze in the afternoon.

They downedAlberta 76-63 at the University of Winnipeg'sDuckworth Centre.

The province's runners then hit the podium when Shane Dillon won bronzein the men's 800-metre final, just a few minutes beforeVictoria Tachinskitook silver in the female 800-metre final.

That was her second medal of the Games, after she won gold in the 400 metre on Thursday.

She quickly scored a third, when Manitoba's women's 4 x 100-metre relay team took silver.

Regan Hofley also won her second track medal of the Games. She took home silver in thefemale Special Olympics 200-metre final on Friday, following up her silver the previous day in the Special Olympics 100-metre.

The day ended with a silver in men's baseballfor Team Manitoba, in a 3-1 loss to Saskatchewan.

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