{"id":7350,"date":"2025-07-20T02:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T02:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/7350\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T02:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T02:16:09","slug":"canada-to-play-for-bronze-at-u19-womens-basketball-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/7350\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada to play for bronze at U19 women&#8217;s basketball World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada fell 87-75 to Australia in a semifinal of the under-19 women&#8217;s basketball World Cup on Saturday\u00a0in Brno, Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadians will play Spain for the bronze medal Sunday. The United States, a 70-58 winner over the Spaniards, will meet the Australians for gold.<\/p>\n<p>Jasmine Bascoe of Milton, Ont., led Canada with a game-high 29 points, nine assists and three steals against the Aussies.<\/p>\n<p>Agot Makeer of Thunder Bay, Ont., collected a team-high seven rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>But Canada trailed from the opening quarter shooting 39 per cent from field goal range to Australia&#8217;s 53 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The Aussies also dominated free throws at 95 per cent to Canada&#8217;s 57 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Canada, which took the bronze medal in the tournament in 2023, fell short of its first appearance in the final.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada fell 87-75 to Australia in a semifinal of the under-19 women&#8217;s basketball World Cup on Saturday\u00a0in Brno,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-7350","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\/7350","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=7350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}