Day Two sets the stage for the CCAA Badminton Finals
Day two of the CCAA Badminton National Championships featured the conclusion of the round-robin games and ended with the semi-finals.
Mixed Doubles
Humber College’s Airi Moromisato and Sirapob Kongubon (OCAA) finished with a 5-0 record heading into the semi-finals where they faced NAIT’s Davis Wong and Ivy Ung (ACAC). Collège Boréal’s Frederic Houle and Michelle Kozlowskyj (OCAA) faced UKC’s Jack Ronahan and Anna Gillies (ACAA) in the other semi-final.
Moromisato and Kongubon stayed undefeated, winning 2-0 over Wong and Ung (21-6, 21-14). Ronahan and Gillies also advanced and will face Humber’s duo in the gold medal match following their 2-0 win over Houle and Kozlowskyj.
Men’s Doubles
Team ACAA’s pair Bryce Mason and Sam White (UKC) went into the semi-finals with a 4-1 record where they faced team ACAC’s Brandon Gendre and Jay Patel (NAIT). Akara Chooprawad and Anthony Tso of Seneca College (OCAA) competed against San Dang and Arpitraj Sinha of Fanshawe College (OCAA), where both teams had the same record of 4-1.
Mason and White will compete against Chooprawad and Tso for gold after both teams won their semi-final matches 2-0. Gendre and Patel will compete for bronze against Dang and Sinha.
Women’s Doubles
Team OCAA’s Victoria Duong and Praanjal Taneja of Humber College went into the semi-finals with a perfect 5-0 record, where they competed against team ACAC’s Priyanna Ramdhani and Abbey Taylor of Olds College. Abby Ledda and Cecilia Wolski (The King’s University, ACAC) faced Salina He and Katie Liu (Seneca College, OCAA) in the other semi-final match-up.
Duong and Taneja remained perfect record and now head into the championship match against Ledda and Wolski. Ramdhani and Taylor will battle against He and Liu for the bronze medal.
Men’s Singles
Yuge Zeng of George Brown College (ACAA), as well as Kunal Sokar (Seneca College, OCAA) and Narayan Ramdhani (The King’s University), all finished with 4-1 records after the round-robin games were completed. Zeng faced Team ACAC’s Smit Patel (NAIT) in the semi-finals. Sokar and Ramdhani competed against one another for a spot in the championship match.
Patel was able to defeat Zeng in a close 2-1 game (23-21, 17-21, 21-19) to claim his spot in the championship game. Sokar and Ramdhani’s match was also close, with Sokar prevailing with a 2-1 win (21-14, 16-21, 21-12).
Women’s Singles
Seneca College’s I-Ting Liu (OCAA) was able to move onto the semi-finals with a perfect record of 5-0 to compete against Concordia University’s Jasleen Kaur (ACAC). Johnna Rymes of Concordia University (ACAC) headed into the semi-finals with a 3-2 record and faced Dapasha Prabhjot of Seneca College (OCAA), who held a 4-1 record.
Liu sustained her perfect record with a 2-0 victory over Kaur, claiming a spot in the championship match. After a close match between Rymes and Prabhjot, Prabhjot was able to earn the other spot in the gold medal match with a 2-1 win (18-21, 21-18, 21-10).
