Local Sports

Championship baseball will be in the city this weekend.  

 The 11U AA Tier 1 Provincial Championships will take place in Humboldt with three full days of action on the diamond featuring nine teams including the host Humboldt Dodgers. 

Assistant Coach Nicole Unrau says along with the games, there will be opening ceremonies on Friday night at 7:00. 40 Ounce Philosophy will be on hand to provide music for the ceremonies and the introductions of the participating squads. 

A local softball tournament in Unity this past weekend took the spotlight to start the week, but local teams were busy province wide playing in some fierce competition to end their season.

All three Western Canadian Baseball League games scheduled for last night were postponed due to rain. There are four games are on the slate tonight including the Moose Jaw Miller Express at home to the Weyburn Beavers. First pitch is 7:05 p.m. at Ross Wells Park.

Major League Baseball's All-Star Game is on tonight in Atlanta. Blue Jay's Vladimir Guererro Junior will start at first base for the American League while his Toronto teammate Alejandro Kirk is also suiting up. The game gets underway at 6 p.m. at Truist Park.

A double win for Ayden Ross and Ryder Woods at the Elmwood Cup over the weekend.

The won the championship flight and championship horse race.

Shane Moore and Doug Hildebrandt won the second flight, while Kerry and Brittany Ford won the third flight.

Team Alberta exploded out of the gate at the U18 Football Canada Cup, racking up 51 points in the first half on their way to a dominant 52-7 win over Manitoba in Sunday’s tournament opener.

Alberta’s defence set the tone early, shutting down Manitoba’s opening drive and forcing a safety for the game’s first points. Quarterback Harrison Hyndman followed up with a perfectly executed shovel pass to running back Joel Thorpe for the tournament’s first touchdown.

 The crowds were cheering at the 136th annual Wood Mountain Stampede, Canada's longest continuously running rodeo, held just south of Wood Mountain in the regional park.

Rhett Fitzpatrick, a past competitor and current board member of the Wood Mountain Stampede, shared his excitement about this year's event. 
"It's a full weekend of rodeoing," he said.

 We've got every major event, bareback, saddle bronc, and bull riding, plus amateur bronc and bareback riding. 

MONDAY, JULY 14TH

Santa Clara Baseball League
Playoffs - Best of 3
Game 2
Carberry 10 Minnedosa 6 (8 innings)
(Series tied 1-1)

Playoffs - Best of 3
Game 1
Neepawa 12 Austin 8
(Neepawa leads 1-0)

TUESDAY, JULY 15TH

Local coach Al Wirth along with 5 track stars from the Morden/Winkler areas are gearing up to head to Edmonton as part of the Western Canada Track Challenge this upcoming weekend.

Javien Chartrand of Kleefeld was on the Manitoba U18 Indigenous team that claimed gold at the national championships, and the 16-year-old opened a lot of eyes with his play.

"I was nervous at first," Chartrand says about his feelings leading up to the big game in Winnipeg. "But, I was fine throughout the game."

There was a lot of great talent on the field, and Chartrand believes he was right there with all of them. "When the nerves left my body, I was fine. I just balled out."

It's been a sensational summer for golf star Doug Penner, and after coming off winning the Steinbach Fly-In Championship recently, he's carried that strong play to the Men's Amateur in Winnipeg where he is tied for 1st after day one.

"Today was great," Penner says from his home in Mitchell. "Weather was perfect for golf, it wasn't very windy and 22 degrees. I was hitting the ball solid and making putts, it was a fun day."