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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.

The Richardson Pioneer Weyburn Red Wings are coming back home with a 2-0 lead in their best-of-seven SJHL semifinal series with Flin Flon Bombers, after winning Game 2 in Flin Flon Saturday night. 

"I kind of sound like a broken record here, but our guys are just continuing to get better every day," said head coach Cody Mapes after the 4-1 victory. "They're doing a good job to play within themselves, and everybody's just doing their job."

Just as it looked like the Ste. Anne Aces and Killarney Shamrocks would be heading to a game three, the Aces stepped up and found a way to tie the game late then win in overtime, capturing the championship.

There was a buzz in the Killarney arena as fans from both sides packed the stands.

They were treated to an incredible hockey game with both sides going back and forth, putting on a show.

Trailing 5-4 with seconds remaining, the Aces found the back of the net to tie the game 5-5, bringing the many supporters of the orange to their feet.

For the first time this playoffs, the Winkler Flyers lost at the Icon Arena and trail in a series for the first time, down 1-0 after a 4-2 loss to the Northern Manitoba Blizzard on Saturday night.

It was a tough start for the Flyers as they found themselves down 1-0 just over six minutes into the hockey game.

Things would get worse as Nik Gudmundson was assessed a 5-minute major for kneeing and a game-misconduct, leaving the Flyers with just 11 forwards for the remained of the game, on top of having to kill off a major penalty.

Reid Dyck made 36 saves in his final performance with the Swift Current Broncos, but it wasn't enough in a 3-2 loss to Medicine Hat.

The Game 5 loss ended Swift Current's season as they fell 4-1 to the Tigers in their first round best-of-seven series.

Markus Ruck gave Medicine Hat a lead in an evenly played first round.

Shaeffer Gordon-Carroll added to the Tigers lead in the second period by finishing a nice three-way passing play.

Scotland will be playing for gold at the BKT World Men’s Curling Championship at Temple Garden Centre, while Team Canada has been relegated to the bronze medal game.

It came down to the last shot of the 10th end, but Scotland defeated Canada 7-4 in their semifinal game on Saturday night.

“If we went out and laid an egg and played terribly, I’d probably be fuming, but we played well and they made a couple more shots than us,” said Canada lead Ben Hebert.

Scotland defeated Sweden 8-7 in the qualification round and will advance to face Canada in the semifinal on Saturday afternoon at the BKT World Men's Curling Championship at the Temple Gardens Curling Club.

The semifinal will be taking place this afternoon at 3 p.m.

This also means there will be a new champion, as reigning world champion Niklas Edin of Sweden has been eliminated.

Sweden opened with the hammer. Scotland's skip Bruce Mouat drew behind a guard to avoid a blank end, forcing Edin to draw for one.

The Richardson Pioneer Weyburn Red Wings came into Game 1 of the SJHL semi-final series with the Flin Flon Bombers Friday night looking to continue their strong postseason play on the road. Three goals in the first period, and 39 saves by Angelo Zol helped lift the Red Wings to a win to take the first game of the best-of-seven series. 

The Portage Terriers lost their first game on home ice so far in their run to the Turnbull Cup by a score of 3-1 to the Dauphin Kings.

Portage scored a goal at the very last second of the first period, as Caleb Lepitre notched his first of the post-season on the powerplay. There was plenty of discussion between the officials and Dauphin's coaching staff, but the goal would stand. 1-0 Portage after the first.