{"id":56333,"date":"2015-07-20T08:45:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T00:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=56333"},"modified":"2015-07-20T08:45:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T00:45:26","slug":"canadas-womens-basketball-team-beats-brazil-to-book-spot-in-pan-am-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/20\/canadas-womens-basketball-team-beats-brazil-to-book-spot-in-pan-am-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s women\u2019s basketball team beats Brazil to book spot in Pan Am final"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_56334\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56334\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NATYHBYPCNMYAHF.20150623212837.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56334\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NATYHBYPCNMYAHF.20150623212837.jpg\" alt=\"Nirra Fields (Photo courtesy of Ucla Ruins)\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NATYHBYPCNMYAHF.20150623212837.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NATYHBYPCNMYAHF.20150623212837-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nirra Fields (Photo courtesy of Ucla Ruins)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO \u2013 Canada\u2019s women\u2019s basketball team will play for gold at the Pan American Games after thoroughly dismantling Brazil 91-63 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Nirra Fields had 15 points to top the Canadians, who will meet the United States in Monday night&#8217;s final and are guaranteed to match their best-ever Pan Am result.<\/p>\n<p>Canada has never won a Pan Am basketball tournament, on either the women or men\u2019s side. The women\u2019s best result was a silver in 1999 in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>Lizanne Murphy scored 12 points, while Kim Gaucher and Michelle Plouffe had 10 apiece for a Canadian team that completely outclassed Brazil with its depth and hard-nosed defence.<\/p>\n<p>The Americans played Cuba in the early semifinal, holding on for a 65-64 victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2013 Canada\u2019s women\u2019s basketball team will play for gold at the Pan American Games after thoroughly dismantling Brazil 91-63 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":56334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,44],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-56333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-sports","tag-original","mauthors-lori-ewing","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}