Canada’s bid for a first-ever championship game appearance at the women’s U19 basketball World Cup has fallen just short.<\/p>\n
The Canadians lost 87-75 against Australia in the semifinals of the tournament on Saturday in Brno, Czechia.<\/p>\n
Still, Canada could claim its third bronze medal of all time on Sunday, when it will face the loser of the second semifinal between the U.S. and Spain.<\/p>\n
The winner of that game will meet the Aussies in the final.<\/p>\n
Canada’s Jasmine Bascoe led all scorers with 29 points in the loss, nailing four three-pointers and adding nine assists to boot.<\/p>\n
Bascoe, the 19-year-old from Milton, Ont., will begin her sophomore season at Villanova in the fall.<\/p>\n
Avery Howell, who was born in Boise, Idaho, but represents Canada due to her B.C.-born mother, contributed 20 points and five assists. However, no other Canadian reached double digits in scoring.<\/p>\n
Australia enjoyed more balanced scoring as Zara Russell, Monique Bobongie and Sitaya Fagan each poured in a team-high 14 points.<\/p>\n
Canada previously won bronze at the World Cup in 2023 and 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada’s bid for a first-ever championship game appearance at the women’s U19 basketball World Cup has fallen just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-6394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}