Team Manitoba will play its final preliminary round game today (8 a.m.) against Ontario Blue at the 2024 U18 Women's National Hockey Championship in Quispamsis, New Brunswick. Manitoba has an 0-2 record after losing 3-0 to Quebec on Monday. Elyse Denbow of Plumas made 36 saves in net for Team Manitoba.
Team MJHL will face Team SJHL tonight (7:30 p.m.) in Warman, Saskatchewan in the first of two games at the Western All-Star Showcase. Serving as a pre-selection camp for Team Canada West, forty of the top 19U prospects from the Manitoba Junior Hockey League and Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League started on-ice sessions Monday and will play two games during the Showcase in front of Team Canada West staff and scouts from all higher levels of hockey (NCAA/WHL/U Sports/NHL, etc.). A total of 30 players will be invited from the western CJHL leagues (AJHL, SJHL, MJHL, SIJHL). Virden Oil Capitals forward Bryce Bryant was selected to play for Team MJHL but cannot attend due to an injury.
The Steinbach Pistons and Dauphin Kings are in the Canadian Junior Hockey League's Top 20 Rankings. The Pistons (12-2-1) moved up two spots from nine to seven. The Kings (12-4), who were not ranked until this week, are number 12. The defending Turnbull Cup champion Winkler Flyers and the Selkirk Steelers dropped out of rankings. The Central Canada Hockey League's Rockland Nationals (15-0-0-1) remain the number one ranked team in the country.
The Winnipeg Jets face Utah tonight (7 p.m.) at Canada Life Centre. The Jets, who have won 11 of their first 12 games, opened their four-game homestand with a 7-4 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Sunday.
Ryan Wiebe, Shaela Hayward, Ty Dilello and Jennifer Clark-Rouire have a 2-1 round robin record heading into day three of the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship in St. Catharines, Ontario. The Manitoba champions defeated Charlie Sullivan of New Brunswick 6-5; lost 5-4 to Jamie Koe of Northwest Territories and beat Peter Mackey of Nunavut 9-1. Team Wiebe will face Tyler Smith of Prince Edward Island and Don Bowser of Quebec today.
The Virden Bears won the Hamiota Huskies junior varsity boys volleyball tournament. The Bears defeated the host Huskies 25-21, 25-20. Vincent Massey girls and Gabrielle Roy boys captured the Neelin Spartans DIG varsity volleyball tournaments. The Vikings beat Stonewall 25-23, 25-22 in the girls final Gabrielle Roy defeated the host Spartans 25-20, 22-25, 15-9 in the boys final. The Warren Wildcats beat the Virden Bears 25-19, 22-25, 15-9 in the final of the Tec Voc junior varsity girls volleyball tournament.
The Sydney marathon will become the seventh event of the World Marathon Majors series. World Marathon Majors announced that the Sydney event, which had more than 20,000 finishers in its last running in September, will join a series of elite events in 2025 that includes New York, London, Berlin, Boston, Tokyo and Chicago. Sydney is the first southern hemisphere city to be included as a major.