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Cochrane Cowboy Wrestling Club alumni Annika Fines and Nick Hooper were among Canada’s top performers at the 2025 U20 World Wrestling Championships in Samokov, Bulgaria, Aug. 17-21.

Fines was Canada’s second-highest-placing female wrestler, finishing eighth in the women’s 62-kilogram freestyle category. Hooper was the second-best Canadian on the men’s side, placing 12th in the 74-kilogram division.

19 local athletes are returning home from Newfoundland after participating in the 2025 Canada Summer Games.

The games wrapped up with the closing ceremony yesterday.

Saskatchewan finished 6th in total medals with 48.

Two of those medals involved southwest athletes. 

Allison Girardeau is the 2025 Chinook Ladies Club Champion.

Girardeau sank a 30-foot putt for birdie on the 18th hole to secure a one-shot victory.

She scored an 80, while Sandra Dyck finished just a stroke behind with an 81 in a field of 49 golfers.

The National Men’s Baseball Championships wrapped up on Sunday in Regina. 

In the bronze medal game, members of the Marysburg Royals were in both dugouts as Team Saskatchewan battled the host, Regina Trappers.  

Team Saskatchewan won the bronze medal game 13-3.  

Marysburg’s Tom Hooker was the leadoff hitter for Team Saskatchewan, and had two hits, scored a pair of runs and also stole two bases.  

Through the first half of the 2025 Canadian Football League (CFL) regular season has a record 8-0 against six of their eight CFL opponents. 

The one team that has had the Roughriders number this year is the Calgary Stampeders.  

On Saturday, the Stampeders completed a two-game sweep over the Roughriders after a 32-15 victory at McMahon Stadium.  

Approximately $17,900 worth of fentanyl, a replica firearm, and other drug-related evidence was seized following a traffic stop on Friday night. 

At 10:38 p.m. on August 22, the Winnipeg Police Service received a call from a concerned citizen about a 2019 Chevrolet Malibu being driven recklessly on Portage Avenue after entering the city from the Perimeter Highway. 

Two more Cochranites who were part of Team Alberta are returning with medals from the Canada Summer Games that wrapped up yesterday in St. John’s, N.L.

Leyton Balint, 18, won a silver medal as a member of Alberta’s women’s volleyball team.

The team faced Ontario in the final after going undefeated in the preliminary round and through two playoff rounds. Alberta dug deep but ultimately fell 3–1 in a hard-fought match.

The Sylvan Lake Wranglers have named the first-ever co-winners of their Volunteer of the Year Award.

Tammy Whitney and Brandi Maxon were recognized for their contributions during the team’s championship season.

The Wranglers said in a social media statement the pair "took this season to the next level" by supporting players throughout the playoffs to running what they called the “most happening beer garden in the league.”

“Their tireless efforts not only met the standard — they exceeded it,” the team said.

Weyburn's Deana Mainil competed in the Myoflex Canadian National Pickleball Championships, held August 19th to 24th at the Taylor Tennis Center in Winnipeg.

She said more than 720 athletes competed on the venue's 32 courts.

It was a rowdy and rumbling weekend as the Prairie Dirt Racing Association (PDRA) Tour returned to the southwest for a round of races to close off summer in conjunction with the Swift Current Ag & Ex's first-ever Cowboys & Chrome event. 

The Swift Current Stock Car Association hosted the races at the Swift Current Motor Speedway, with a full lineup of cars, including an all-new kids' modified class.