Local Sports

The Cochrane Piranhas Summer Swim Club dove into the 2025 season with energy and determination, earning a wave of medals and two second-place team finishes at early-season meets in Didsbury and Okotoks.

Their season debut came June 7 at the Didsbury Aqua Jets Invitational, where the Piranhas finished just 34 points behind the powerhouse Calgary Tritons in combined team standings.

Among the standout performers:

Girls 8 and under

• Ellie Rauhaus won the 50m backstroke and 25m freestyle, and took silver in the 25m backstroke.

The Wainwright Stampede had chuckwagons for the first time since 1983 this weekend, but the competition was cut short due to the weather.

On Saturday night, it was windy and cool with sloppy racetrack conditions, but that didn't hinder the chuckwagon fans in Wainwright.

Kurt Bensmiller won the Alberta AG Centre Fast Time of the Night with a run of 1:06.35, which was only a fraction of a second faster than second place Chance Flad, who finished with a time of 1:06.83.

It came down to the wire on Friday between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Toronto Argonauts. Fortunately for the green and white, they were the last ones to possess the football 

Mario Alford returned a 99-yard kickoff for a touchdown with eight seconds remaining to give the Roughriders a 39-32 victory in Toronto.  

The Weyburn Razorbacks put up a spirited effort but were ultimately outmatched by the Moose Jaw Mustangs in PGLL action Saturday night, falling 20-10. 

The Mustangs came out firing, scoring eight times in the first period to take control of the game early. Despite a more competitive middle frame and a third-period push from the Razorbacks, Moose Jaw’s offensive depth proved too much. 

The Moose Jaw Miller Express suffered a 1–7 loss at the hands of the Medicine Hat Mavericks yesterday. Eduardo Saenz scored the lone run for the Millers, who are back in action again tomorrow, on the road to take on the Sylvan Lake Gulls.

In other WCBL play yesterday, the Regina Red Sox had two wins, going 8–0 and 4–3 during their doubleheader against the Gulls. And the Saskatoon Berries swept the Energy City Cactus Rats, with a 4–3 and a 4–0 win last night.

In the only WCBL game played Saturday night due to widespread rainouts, the Weyburn Beavers and Swift Current 57s combined for 39 runs and 42 hits in a wild affair that ended with the 57s on top, 25-14. 

The Saskatchewan Roughriders have completed an eastern sweep to start the 2025 CFL campaign.

SUNDAY, JUNE 22ND

Manitoba Junior Baseball League
Elmwood 12 Pembina Valley 2
Winnipeg South Junior 8 Altona 4
Winnipeg South Junior 11 Altona 0

Canadian Elite Basketball League
Edmonton Stingers 98 Winnipeg Sea Bears 85

It was a fast-paced, fun-fuelled Friday evening at the Swift Current Motor Speedway for a round of stock car races.

Despite being rained out on Saturday, the Swift Current Stock Car Association was out with a full lineup of cars on Friday as the races kicked off at 8:00 p.m. 

The MJHL's Neepawa Titans swung a deal that adds 20-year-old Ty Kirk to their team for the upcoming season and the Hamiota product couldn't be happier to be playing closer to home.

"It was a really exciting moment," Kirk says about finding out he was being traded to Neepawa. "It was all fast and smooth. Thrilled to be closer to home with my family being able to watch me more, it'll be good."