Steinbach Regional scored 21 first quarter points en route to a 51-22 victory over the Sturgeon Heights Huskies. Pavel Tsialipka ran for two touchdowns and Cruz Greenham had a 97-yard pick-six for the Sabres who improved to 3-0 in the Winnipeg High School Football League's JV9 Division. Arkin Padron and Mason Wiebe threw touchdown passes for the SRSS. Owen Medeiros caught a 37-yard td pass and returned a fumbled kick-off for another major.
Calyb Moore scored the tying goal on the power play at 14:36 of the third period and Jimmy Wilcox potted the winner with 26 seconds left as the Eastman Selects rallied for a 4-3 victory over the Interlake Lightning Wednesday night in Tuelon. Seth Hooper and Noah Stott also scored for the Selects. Eastman netminder Wyatt Minsky stopped 30 of the 33 shots he faced.
Nino Niederreiter scored twice and Gabriel Vilardi had three assists in the Winnipeg Jets 5-2 victory over the Calgary Flames at Canada Life Centre. Nikolaj Ehlers, Simon Lundmark and Kyle Connor also scored for the Jets. Winnipeg's Connor Hellebuyck made 17 saves. The Jets will play their sixth and final pre-season game Friday night against the Flames in Calgary. Winnipeg will open the 2024-25 NHL season against the Oilers in Edmonton next Wednesday.
Kaitlyn Lawes and Matt Dunstone have 2-0 records, Keri Einarson is 1-1 while Chelsea Carey and Reid Carruthers are 0-2 at the Grand Slam of Curling's Tour Challenge in Charlottetown. Lawes defeated Silvana Tirinzoni 4-3; Dunstone downed Joel Retornaz 6-2; Einarson beat Delaney Strouse 7-4; Carey dropped a 7-4 decision to Anna Hasselborg and Carruthers lost 6-5 to Michael Brunner. Dunstone will face Brad Jacobs and Lawes will meet Eun Ji Gim in A Event qualifiers.
The Republic of Korea sits atop the team leaderboard by one-shot over Team Canada 1 following the opening round of the 2024 World Junior Girls Golf Championship at Credit Valley Golf & Country Club in Mississauga, Ont. Sumin Hong and Soomin Oh both shot rounds of 3-under 69 to help lead the Republic of Korea on Wednesday. Defending champions, Team Canada 1 are one shot back. Aphrodite Deng of Calgary shot a 5-under 67 to help lead her team and the individual standings. Clairey Lin of Langley shot an even par 72 and Shauna Liu of Maple, Ont. shot a 3-over 75.
Coach Jesse Marsch has given three players their first call-up to Canada's men's soccer team. Jamie Knight-Lebel, Santiago Lopez and Kwasi Poku were named to Canada's roster. Canada faces Panama in a friendly on October 15th in Toronto.
Steinbach will face the Northern Manitoba Blizzard and Swan Valley Stampeders this weekend. Head coach Paul Dyck will join Clayton Dreger on the Pistons Report which airs Thursdays at 5:15 p.m. on AM 1250 Radio.