Local Sports

The Coteau Hills Baseball League championship trophy could be handed out tonight in Elrose. The hometown Aces are facing elimination as they welcome in the Beechy Breakers for the final home game of the season in Elrose.

At 5-1-1 in the regular season, Beechy finished tied for first with Dinsmore in the league's regular season standings, Elrose finishing third at 5-2. Beechy was a top offense at 71 runs for on the season, taking on Elrose's strong pitching staff who led the league with only 38 runs against.

A Swift Current football player has returned home with some hardware after competing at the 2025 Football Canada Cup in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.

Linebacker Jackson Gording-Dovell helped lead Team Saskatchewan to a bronze medal on Sunday, knocking off second-seeded Quebec 36-8 at ST.FX Stadium. 

"I think we fell a little short, which is alright," he said. "But it's alright to come home with some hardware."

The Medicine Hat Mavericks picked up a 17-6 win Wednesday night at Ross Wells Park to end the Moose Jaw Miller Express’s three-game winning streak. 

After a scoreless first inning, Medicine Hat scored two runs in the top of the second. Moose Jaw replied with two runs in the bottom half of the inning to tie the game. Tanner DeGrazia doubled to bring home Eduardo Saenz, and Robert Estrada scored on an error by the centre-fielder. 

Last night the 15U AAA East Central Dodgers fell into a hole early and couldn’t recover as they were defeated by the Saskatoon Astros 11-3. 

The Astros scored six runs in the top of the first inning to grab a sizeable advantage early in the contest.  

East Central responded with a pair of runs in the bottom of the first, but the Astros regained the six-run lead scoring a pair in the top of the second inning. 

The Cochrane Generals have set their sights on the 2025-26 season, starting with four exhibition games in early September.

The Gens' 36-game Heritage Junior Hockey League regular season schedule opens with a bang on Sept. 19 on the road against the four-time defending champion Okotoks Bisons. Their home opener follows on Sept. 27 against the Strathmore Wheatland Kings.

Moose Jaw's Little League All Stars are practicing and raising funds this week in anticipation of their trip to the Canadian Championships in Victoria next week.

The local boys are coming off a three-game sweep of North Regina in the provincial championship.

The Canadian Little League Championship begins Tuesday. In the meantime, the All Stars have a fundraiser tomorrow night - a Ribs and Caesar dinner at the Crushed Can Sports Bar and Rec Room.

Two exciting games took place last night in the Battle River Baseball League, a pair of one run finishes setting up a finals rematch between the Macklin Lakers and Veteran Bulls.

After suffering their first loss of the season in Game 2 last week, Macklin hosted Amisk on Wednesday night for Game 3 and won 5-4.

Lakers starting pitcher Cody Gartner went five shutout innings, but the game remained close late, setting up leadoff hitter Hunter Steinhubel who hit a bottom of the seventh blast to left centre field to give the Lakers the win and berth in the BRBL Finals. 

The schedules are finalized for each Baseball Saskatchewan senior provincial tournament set to fire up at the start of August.

This year the Unity Cardinals are taking on the challenge of Tier 1 competition in Saskatoon, while Cabri and North Battleford represent half the teams at Tier 2 in Assiniboia, the Macklin Lakers in Carnduff for the 5-team Tier 3 tournament, and finally the Rosetown Angels are one of six teams in contention for the Tier 4 title in Hanley. 

The sport of pickleball is thriving in Estevan, and with both the Estevan Pickleball Club and Fresh Air Fitness working on new court developments, it’s clear that the region is fully embracing one of Canada’s fastest-growing games.

Taylor Herman, President of the Estevan Pickleball Club, says the 2025 season is progressing well despite the summer slowdown.

“Everything's been going good for us. It's a little slow right now, just with everyone on holidays. But prior to school being done, everything's been busy and looks to be a busy fall coming up,” Herman said.

Skylar Sieben wasn’t looking for a new sport when she caught the eye of a university coach in Arizona. But after three years of hearing “you should try bobsleigh,” she finally listened—and found herself on a fast track to the World Cup.

“I never worked with him directly,” said Sieben, a former elite heptathlon track athlete. “But he kept telling me I should quit track and try bobsledding. One day, he just took it upon himself to reach out.”