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Nothing like a trip home to soak up the Okanagan sunshine and enjoy the spoils of victory to help recharge life's battery.

Vernon's Cassandra Brown brought with her to the North Okanagan a bottle of red Bordeaux wine, gifted to her and her Team Canada teammates for winning the latest stop on the FIBA Basketball 3x3 Women's Series in the namesake region in southwest France where the wine was bottled.

"I tucked it safely in my bag," laughed Brown, 33, as she navigated her way safely, hands free, through a Starbucks drive-thru, chatting via mobile with a reporter about her Bordeaux prize. "I plan to enjoy it while I'm at home."

Canada’s 3x3 women’s national team captured its second consecutive FIBA 3x3 Women’s Series stop, defeating Austria 18-12 in the f

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