Addison Kartusch of the St. Charles Country Club and Braxton Kuntz of Breezy Bend are Golf Manitoba's 2024 Female & Male Amateur Golfers of the Year. Kartusch won the Match Play Championship, the Provincial Junior Championship and the Provincial Women’s Amateur Championship. The 18-year-old from Winnipeg, who is into her freshmen year at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, also finished T3 at the Canadian Junior Girls Championship and T48 at the Canadian Women’s Amateur Championship. Kuntz captured the Provincial Men’s Amateur Championship and finished T3 at the Canadian Championship, the NCAA Bryan National Collegiate Championship and at the NCAA Butler University Don Benbow Invitational. He also placed T12 at the NCAA Fighting Illini Spring Collegiate Championship. The 20-year-old from Winnipeg, who is attending Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, is the first player in Manitoba history to win the Men’s Amateur in four consecutive years (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024).
Steinbach Regional will meet the Vincent Massey Vikings in the Winnipeg High School Football League's JV9 semifinal today at the East Side Eagles field. The opening kick-off is at 5 p.m. The Vikings beat the Sabres 41-21 last Wednesday in Brandon in the final regular season game for both teams.
The Winnipeg Jets face the Red Wings in Detroit tonight. The Jets saw their season-opening eight-game win streak come to an end Monday at Canada Life Centre with a 6-4 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The Professional Women's Hockey League is looking to expand. League executive Amy Scheer says the PWHL will soon begin sending requests for proposals and will also be accepting applications. Quebec City and Calgary could be Canadian options. Detroit and Pittsburgh are among the potential candidates in the United States.
Brad Gushue has a 5-0 record and has qualified for the playoffs at the Pan Continental Curling Championships in Lacombe, Alberta. Gushue defeated Team John Shuster of the United States 7-5 and Japan's Team Shinya Abe 7-5. Rachel Homan downed New Zealand’s Team Chelsea Suddens 9-2 and has a 4-0 record.
The Eastman Selects have won six of seven games to start the 2024-25 Manitoba Female U18 AAA Hockey League season. Selects head coach Laird Laluk will join Clayton Dreger on Sportsbeat which airs Wednesdays at 5:15 p.m. on AM 1250 Radio.