Local Sports

THURSDAY, MAY 22ND

NHL
Playoffs - Best of 7
Eastern Conference Finals
Game 2
Florida 5 Carolina 0
Florida leads series 2-0

PWHL
Walter Cup Finals - Best of 5
Game 2
Minnesota 2 Ottawa 1 (Overtime)
Series tied 1-1

American Association of Professional Baseball
Milwaukee 7 Winnipeg 4

After a convincing tournament win, Pat Tetrault's Braves won the Zone 13 MHSAA girls softball championship and will be heading to provincials in Stonewall at the end of May.

"We've had the luxury of having a pretty good team this season," Tetrault says with a proud smile. "Girls have been working hard since early April. They came in, got to work hitting balls, getting ready for the short high school season. We had a pretty good showing at the Zone 13 tournament."

While the season has come to an end for the Winnipeg Jets after a devastating 2-1 overtime loss in Dallas, team owner says Winnipeg fans are the best in the league. 

"The past several weeks of playoff hockey created a wide range of emotions for all of us," Mark Chipman said in a post shared to Facebook.

A trio of local judokans hit the mat on the national stage late last week.

Talon Moen, Eliot Perrault, and Blake Rempel of the Swift Current Judo Club represented Judo Saskatchewan at the 2025 Open Nationals Judo Championships held from May 15 to 18 at Calgary's Olympic Oval.

Nancy Filteau, the head instructor with the Swift Current Judo Club and one of the Judo Saskatchewan coaches, said, unfortunately, they returned home without medals, but the event can be used as a building block for her local students.

The 15U AAA East Central Dodgers squeaked out a walk off 7-6 victory against the Saskatoon Expos last night.  

Sawyer Pollon knocked in the game winning run with a single in the bottom of the seventh inning.  

Reid Griffith picked up the win on the mound for the Dodgers.  

The 15U AA Watrous Lakers picked up an 8-5 win over the 15U AA East Central Dodgers on Wednesday night in Humboldt. 

Daxton Hoppenreys led the Lakers at the plate with three hits, a pair of RBIs and two runs scored. Jayce Lockie also had two RBIs.  

For East Central, Dryden Knittig, Hunter Korte, and Kade Comfort each had two hits.  

Watrous stormed out of the gates, picking up four runs through the first three innings.  

The exhibition game for the Sylvan Lake Gulls U19 Prep team is set for tonight against the Red Deer Riggers at 7:05 p.m. and tickets are just $5.

Tonight’s game offers fans a chance to see the next generation of Gulls players and to give a warm welcome to the visiting Red Deer athletes.

Meanwhile, Gulls players from around the world are making their way to Sylvan Lake this weekend as the club prepares for the “Sea of Gold” home opener on May 29.

There were a number of games for Weyburn lacrosse teams in the past week, with nearly every age group taking to the floor, whether at home or on the road.  

U11 Weyburn Credit Union Thrashers 

The 16U Men's Humboldt Chaos Volleyball Club will be competing against the some of the best teams in Canada as a part of the Youth Nationals in Edmonton. 

Today the Chaos Volleyball Club will be in action with three games, they will face the Barn Owls Volleyball Club from BC, then they will square off with the Jr. Gryphons from Ontario, before they wrap up the first day of action against the Fort Sask Sonic VC from Alberta. 

The Winnipeg Goldeyes (6-6) erupted for seven runs in the bottom of the third inning en route to an 11-6 victory over the Milwaukee Milkmen (4-6) on a pleasant Wednesday evening at Blue Cross Park. The win marks the Goldeyes’ third straight, bringing them back to .500 on the season.
 
Milwaukee opened the scoring early, as Micker Adolfo delivered run-scoring single in the top of the first to give the visitors a 1-0 edge. Winnipeg responded in the bottom of the second when Gustavo Sosa lined a single up the middle to score Tanner O’Tremba and tie the game at 1-1.