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The high school football regular season wrapped up on Friday with several southwest schools in playoff contention this fall.

Colter Folk from the Swift Current Comprehensive High School is taking home another medal from the SHSAA Cross Country Provincial Championships, winning a silver in the Senior Boys category at Saturday's meet at Dixon Hills near Humboldt.

It's the third straight year that Colter has medalled at the event, following a gold medal in 2022 and a silver in the Junior Boys' category last year.

Thae game was much closer than the score indicated however the result was the same as the week before. For the second straight Sunday, the Portage Terriers fell to the Winkler Flyers, whose win streak has now reached four games.

It turned into a wild game that saw the Steinbach Pistons trailing by four goals only to come back to tie the game in the final minute of regulation before a former teammate plunged the dagger into the comeback hopes as the Neepawa Titans claimed a 7-6 overtime victory on Sunday night.

There was a sense early on that this was not going to be a typical MJHL hockey game, it was going to be something different, more unpredictable.

Sunday, October 13th

MJHL
Winkler 6 Portage 2
Neepawa 7 Steinbach 6 (OT)
Northern Manitoba 4 Wpg Freeze 1
Dauphin 8 Waywayseecappo 0

MMJHL
St. James 2 Pembina Valley 1

Lucas Newman scored three times and Hunter Gregory made 15 saves in recording the shutout as the defending Westman High School Hockey League champion Vincent Massey Vikings blanked Crocus Plains 7-0.

Connor Hoemsen had two goals and an assist to lead the Southwest Cougars past the Winnipeg Thrashers 5-3. Bryan Laing, Shane Elder and Spencer Cullen also scored for the Cougars who have won four of their last five games.

The Steinbach Pistons six-game winning streak came to an end Sunday night at the Yellowhead Centre. The Neepawa Titans beat Steinbach 7-6 in overtime. James Fuchs scored the tying goal for the Pistons with 44 seconds left in regulation to send the game into OT. The Titans led 6-2 until Connor Paronuzzi scored a power play goal with nine seconds left in the second period. Noah Szabo, Cale Quamme and Fuchs then scored in the third period for Steinbach.

The Winkler Flyers win streak has reached four games. Kam Thomas scored twice and Liam Ernst made 21 saves as the defending Turnbull Cup champions defeated the Portage Terriers 6-2. Nicholas Mckee, Niklas Gudmundson, Brady Craik and Ethan MacTavish also scored for the Flyers who wrap up their four-game homestand Tuesday night when they face the MJHL's East Division leading Selkirk Steelers.

Cricket enthusiasts in Waverley West will soon have more opportunities to enjoy the sport with the construction of two new cricket pitches nearing completion in the Bridgwater and Waverley Heights neighbourhoods. The pitches are expected to open in spring 2025.

Saskatoon, Sask. – The Moose Jaw Warriors’ offence couldn’t crack the Saskatoon Blades on Saturday night, as they were shutout 2-0 at SaskTel Centre.

“It was definitely a game that we could have won, we were in it right until the end,” Warriors associate coach Scott King said. “It’s disappointing because it felt like a very winnable game.”

Warriors goalie Jackson Unger turned away 30 of 31 shots in the loss, while Evan Gardner stopped all 20 shots that Moose Jaw threw on the Saskatoon net.