Local Sports

The Blackfalds Community Group on Facebook is promoting a local Blackfalds athlete for national recognition as Youth Athlete of the Year.

Draeton, a goaltender with the Red Deer Rustlers Hockey Club, is currently sitting in third place in the online contest, which ends Thursday (August 21) at 7:00 p.m. PDT.

If named Youth Athlete of the Year Draeton will be featured in a 3BRAND advertisement in Sports Illustrated and receive a $25,000 prize.

Draeton is one of 10 athletes nominated, and votes are being cast daily for free or additional votes by donation.

Following a day off on Monday, the second half of the 2025 Canada Summer Games in St. John’s, Newfoundland will get started on Tuesday. 

It will be a busy start for the Women’s Baseball team with two games on Tuesday. 

They open the tournament with a matchup against Manitoba.  

That will be followed by a quick turnaround against Prince Edward Island in the afternoon. 

The Marysburg Royals live to see another day in the 2025 Saskatoon Senior Baseball League (SSBL) Playoffs.  

Marysburg avoided elimination with a 3-2 win over the Saskatoon Hoppers on Monday night. 

Thomas Lessmeister got the win on the mound, he pitched 4 innings, allowing one run on nine hits and had four strikeouts. 

Nick Anderson finished off the game, tossing 3 innings, allowing one run on two hits. 

It's week two of the Canada Summer Games and Team Sask is back in action this morning! Men's softball opens at 11 against New Brunswick, with a match-up against Manitoba to follow this afternoon.

Women's baseball gets underway this morning; they face Team Manitoba.

And the Sask men's volleyball team will defend their 2022 Canada Summer Games gold medal when they take on host Newfoundland at 10:30.

Team Sask opens week two with 1 gold and three bronze medals. 

Day 10 at a glance:

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2500 athletes traded spots during turnaround day on Monday at the Canada Summer Games in St. Johns Newfoundland.

After a training day, the second week of events starts today with a brand-new batch of athletes. Locally, week two will feature athletes in athletics, men's softball, men's volleyball, and wrestling. Other sports include male box lacrosse, mountain bike, diving, golf, and female soccer, those disciplines joining artistic swimming and female baseball making their summer games debut.

The Estevan Motor Speedway hosted some make-up races Friday night, allowing racers to earn some more points before the championship night. Having previously been scheduled for last Saturday, but being rained out, the races covered all classes.

President of the Estevan Motor Speedway, Brad Pierson, talked about the night and how the track fared.

For Jennika Linthicum, the pool has always been a second home. Growing up in Estevan, she started as a summer swimmer, but it wasn’t long before a friend suggested she try water polo. Now 15, Linthicum has taken her passion from the local Estevan Sharks to representing Saskatchewan and Canada in competitions around the world.

“I was around seven when I first tried water polo,” she said. “I was always looking for a winter sport connected to swimming, and it just clicked.”

A pair of local teenagers has completed a flawless summer on the beach volleyball court.

Teddy-Lynn Yates and Emmerson Wiens captured the 14U Girls Provincial Beach Championship in Regina on Sunday, emerging from the 12-team field. 

The duo won three matches in the round robin action and tied another.

They then posted back-to-back straight-set wins in the quarterfinals and semifinals to book their ticket in the finals.

The Cochrane Generals are preparing for another season in the Heritage Junior Hockey League (HJHL) with optimism, continuity, and focus on building a winning culture.

Entering his second year as head coach, Derek Bell has overseen a busy offseason of recruitment, team-building, and player development, with training camp just 10 days away.

The summer has been filled with on-ice activity, with weekly summer skates attracting 38 to 40 players, ranging from returning veterans to new prospects.

Thirty-seven athletes from Area 7 — which includes Bearspaw, Cochrane, Springbank, Bragg Creek, and Elbow Valley — will be representing the Zone 2 Big Country Seniors Sports Society (BCSSS) in the 2025 Alberta 55 Plus Games in Leduc, Aug. 21–24.

The local competitors earned their spots between March and June at qualifiers and will now join more than 1,100 seniors from across Alberta for the four-day provincial event.

BCSSS vice-president Doug Campbell is thrilled with the number of participants from Area 7. They make up a quarter of the zone's team.