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Caleb Hadland scored twice and Quinn Mantei had a goal and two assists in the Brandon Wheat Kings 5-3 victory over the Regina Pats at Westoba Place. Adam Belusko and Nolan Flamand also scored for the Wheat Kings who will wrap up their pre-season schedule tonight in Regina. Brandon will open the 2024-25 Western Hockey League season Friday, September 20th at home against the defending champion Moose Jaw Warriors.

The Steinbach Pistons play their final pre-season game tonight when they face the Nighthawks in Niverville. Steinbach fell 5-4 in a seven round shootout Friday night to the defending Manitoba Junior Hockey League champion Flyers in Winkler. Chad Cote, Jackson Kostiuk, Grady Hoffman and Blake Farthing scored for the Pistons in regulation.

The Winkler Flyers pre-season schedule came to an end Friday night. Nick Mckee scored in the seventh round of the shootout to lift Winkler past the Steinbach Pistons 5-4. Connor Jensen, Brady Craik, Mathys Blanchette and Brody Beauchemin scored in regulation for the defending Turnbull Cup champions who will open the 2024-25 Manitoba Junior Hockey League season at home next Friday against the Pistons.

The Maple Creek Redmen overcame a plethora of penalties Friday night to fend off the Gull Lake Lions to open their season in the win column.

Running backs Alex Cruz and Cade Sanderson each scored a pair of touchdowns for Maple Creek in the 27-17 victory. Lions running back Tyden Johnson registered both Gull Lake's touchdowns.

It'll be a battle Friday night as the Agra Risk Wheatland Kings travel to take on the Carstar Okotoks Bisons.

The two teams will face off at the Murray & Piper Arena at 7:30 p.m.

Cody Holdaway, general manager of the Kings says morale in the locker room is high going into the game.

"I think there's been a lot of changes happening around the whole organization, and we're trying to create a place that these guys want to play."

The Kings split a two-game series last weekend.

The HTA Knights are on a roll with four wins in four games dating back to August 23.

If their special August 30 exhibition game against Coronado High School in California counts, that's five.

The scores haven't been particularly close, as the Knights have heavily outscored their opponents. On Wednesday HTA captured their fifth win against the St. Francis Browns with a 35-17 score. Ryder McDougall impressed on the defensive side of the ball and Nash Marzoff threw for a TD as well as running in another touchdown.

The Swift Current Broncos will have a home-and-home set with the Moose Jaw Warriors to wrap up the WHL pre-season this weekend.

The Broncos are 2-1 in their exhibition games with a win over the Regina Pats and a split of two games against the Prince Albert Raiders last weekend.

Goaltender Matthew Kieper, who went 5-2-1-1 in nine games with the Broncos last season, is returning for his second year in Swift Current and says he and his teammates are looking to build off their success in 2023-24.

The Estevan Motor Speedway is gearing up for its last race of the season before they close the doors for the year. 

"It's totally different than our normal program, but it's an opportunity for people that take a car off the street, do some safety modifications to it and just go and race at the much lower expense. So I think it, you know, it brings out a whole different crowd, maybe some of our race fans, and it brings out different people to Speedway because it's maybe not your typical person racing," shared Speedway president Brad Pierson. 

One week has passed since the official opening of the artificial turf field at Ed Eggerer Athletic Park. The Calgary Gators (Alberta Football League) will host this year’s CMFL National Championship game tomorrow. The Gators will take on the GTA All-Stars in the Saturday game.

The Moose Jaw Warriors are in Swift Current tonight for the first game of their home-and-home pre-season series against the Broncos AND tonight's game marks the start of Warriors Hockey on Country 100! Voice of the Warriors James Gallo will deliver all the exciting play-by-play action!

Both teams will face off again at the Moose Jaw Events Centre tomorrow night. 

The Winmar AAA Warriors are headed to Wilcox on Sunday to battle Team Sask - game time at noon.