Local Sports

The Gull Lake Recreation Complex was home to two local roller derby teams season opener this past weekend. 

Jr Team the Ra Ra Riots took on the Bridge City Bruisers and skated their way to a 300 to 243 victory and senior team the Redneck Betties were also victorious against the Gas City Inferno with a 187 -169 win. 

The Riots and Betties will now be gearing up for their next home game taking place on May 3rd. 

Scotland's Bruce Mouat is a two-time World Men's Curling Champion.

Team Scotland defeated Switzerland 5-4 to win the BKT World Men's Curling Championship on Sunday. 

Switzerland took the silver medal, while Canada won bronze with an 11-2 win over China.

The Great 8 is the greatest goal scorer in hockey history. Alexander Ovechkin scored goal number 895 yesterday, surpassing Wayne Gretzky's record of 894.

The Sylvan Lake Wranglers won bronze over the weekend at the Alberta Junior B Provincial tournament held in Morinville.

The Wranglers defeated the Fort St. John Huskies 4-1 in the bronze medal game. 

The host Jets beat Wainwright 4-3 in overtime to win gold.

Sylvan Lake went 4-1 in the tournament, with their only loss coming to Morinville.

The Okotoks Oilers are down two games to none in their best-of-seven BCHL round one playoff series.

The Oil dropped game two on Sunday in Penticton, 5-0 to the Penticton Vees.

The Vees have shutout the Oilers 9-0 over the first two playoff games.

The Green Army should be out for games three and four on Tuesday and Wednesday at Viking Rentals Centre, adding that hometown advantage.

Both games have 7 p.m. start times with tickets still available.

SUNDAY, APRIL 6TH

MJHL
Semi-Finals – Best of 7

Game 2
Dauphin 4 Portage 2
Dauphin leads series 2-0

Game 2
Northern Manitoba 3 Winkler 1
Northern Manitoba leads series 2-0

Manitoba U18 AAA Female Hockey League
Western Regionals – Best of 3
Game 3
Saskatoon Stars 6 Eastman Selects 0
Saskatoon wins series 2-1

The St. Malo Warriors have claimed the CRJHL championship for a second straight season, defeating the Beausejour Comets in seven games.

"It feels great," head coach and general manager Ralph Colette says with a smile. "Like every hockey season, it was a long season and to cap it off with a championship win, that's the ultimate goal."

Special teams were a struggle for the Portage Terriers on Sunday night falling 4-2 to the Dauphin Kings.

Similar to game one of the series, Portage outplayed the Kings early, and Caleb Lepitre opened the scoring late in the first period on the power play. The Terriers outshot the Kings in the first, 12-1.

Bruce Mouat and Team Scotland are two-time world men’s curling champions.

Scotland downed Switzerland 5-4 in the BKT World Men’s Curling Championship final on Sunday afternoon at the Temple Gardens Centre.

The team consisted of Mouat, third Grant Hardie, second Bobby Lammie, lead Hammy McMillan and alternate Kyle Waddell.

Mouat won his first title in 2023, also on Canadian soil, in Ottawa.

Preparations are already underway for the next season of the Saskatchewan Junior Female Hockey League.

The Western Prairie Junior Klippers are just one team with their spring camp plans nailed down. They have the West Central Events Centre booked for two days at the end of April for a day of skills work and then scrimmages.

There will be three skates total over the two-day camp on April 26 and 27. The first skills session on the Saturday will run 11:00-12:30, another one taking place between 3:00-4:30. After that on Sunday between 3:00-4:30 will be a scrimmage. 

Canada will win the bronze medal on home soil at the BKT World Men's Curling Championship at Temple Gardens Centre.

Skip Brad Jacobs, third Marc Kennedy, second Brett Gallant and lead Ben Hebert picked up an 11-2 win over China in the bronze medal game on Sunday morning.

"I think the reason why we were able to score so many points— not only did we get a bunch of misses, but we felt really comfortable on Sheet C all week. We loved that sheet. It felt really easy to put the broom down; it felt really easy to call line on that sheet," said Jacobs after the win.