Fun and Games

Eastern Region champion ball hockey athletes get their beat going during the musical interlude performance by the Old Bosies, part of the closing ceremonies at St. Francis Field in Harbour Grace Saturday afternoon for the 2012 Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Summer Games. 1 width:500px;height:332px Griffin Brophy (left) of the Mount Pearl South Region, and Dolo Emmanuel (right) of the St. John’s North Region, chase after a loose ball during first-half action of the boys’ gold medal soccer game Saturday morning at the St. Francis Field in Harbour Grace. St. John’s North defeated their cross-town rivals Mount Pearl South 3-1 to capture the gold medal on all three goals by Dolo Emmanuel, while Paul Holley replied for the silver medalists. Watching is Zachery Gatherall of St. John’s North. 2 width:500px;height:331px Riley Lingard (centre) of the Mount Pearl South Region, looks on as Liam Major (left) of the St. John’s North Region, heads the ball during second-half action of the boys gold medal soccer game Saturday morning at the St. Francis Field in Harbour Grace. Watching at right is Roberto Torres of St. John’s North. 3 height:500px;width:331px Representing the St. John’s North Region, synchronized swimmers from the St. John’s Sea Stars, perform their routine Saturday morning in the synchronized swimming team finals at the Carbonear Recreation Complex swimming pool. They received marks of 30.983 for artistic impression and 30.717 for technical merit for a total score of 61.700 to give them the gold medal. 4 height:500px;width:332px Kayla Dupont of the Avalon Region, No. 6, tries to deflect a shot in against Emily Bailey of the Eastern Region, along the sideboards in first-period action of their gold medal ball hockey game Saturday morning at the S. W. Moores Memorial Stadium in Harbour Grace. At right is Jenna Pham of Avalon Region. Eastern won the gold medal in a 3-2 OT thriller having come back from a 2-0 deficit scoring a pair of markers in the final period. Angela Mackey scored the OT winner at 3:56 of OT on a setup play from Jenny Connolly. Nicole Blanche with a pair of goals on assists from Megan Normore provided the scoring punch for the Avalon Region.  5 width:500px;height:331px

Telegram photographer Joe Gibbons was on hand for a couple of gold-medal finals in team competition Saturday, the final day of the 2012 Newfoundland and Labrador Summer Games in Harbour Grace and Carbonear. Eastern players (from left) Nicole Warren, Monica Feltham and Jennifer Guy celebrate with their gold medals after a 3-2 overtime win over Avalon in the final of the girls’ ball hockey competition Saturday morning at S.W. Moores Memorial Stadium in Harbour Grace. 6 width:500px;height:330px Angela Mackey and Jenny Connolly (10) of Eastern celebrate Mackey’s game-winning goal against Avalon at 3:56 of overtime in the girls’ ball hockey gold-medal final. Mackey’s tally gave Eastern a 3-2 win over an Avalon team that had held a 2-0 lead heading into the third period. 7 width:500px;height:331px Mount Pearl South goalkeeper Nick Power reacts after having a goal scored on him by Dolo Emmanuel of St. John’s North during the gold-medal game in the Summer Games boys’ soccer competition Saturday morning at St. Francis Field in Harbour Grace. St. John’s North won 3-1, with Emmanuel scoring all his team’s goals against Power, who supplied Mount Pearl South with outstanding goalkeeping during the tourney. 8 width:500px;height:331px Paul Holley (left) of Mount Pearl South watches the ball deflect off of him past St. John’s North goalkeeper Brady McKeown (light blue shirt) in injury time during the Summer Games boys’ gold-medal soccer game Saturday. Looking on are Roberto Torres of St. John’s North and Andrew Kennedy of Mount Pearl South (right). Holley’s goal was the only one scored by his team in a 3-1 loss. 9 width:500px;height:331px Harbour Grace Mayor Don Coombs assists in extinguishing the flames to officially end the 2012 Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Summer Games during the closing ceremonies at the St. Francis Field in Harbour Grace on Saturday afternoon.

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