Local Sports

The Okotoks Dawgs took down the Energy City Cactus Rats on Saturday and Father's Day Sunday.

3-2 was the final score in Saturday's game, and 8-3 was the final on Father's Day.

The club couldn't get past the Medicine Hat Mavericks on Friday, though and lost 5-4.

However, the team is back in first place in the WCBL West, leading the Lethbridge Bulls and the Sylvan Lake Gulls by half a game.

Two Estevan athletes reached the podium at the Special Olympics Provincial Bocce Championships this past weekend.

Chanse Vigen, who now calls Calgary home, is this year's Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede's chuckwagon champ for the second straight year.

Vigen was matched against the wagons driven by Kurt Bensmiller and Rae Croteau Jr for the $10,000 final on Father's Day.

Vigen and Croteau Jr tied for first in the final heat, but Croteau Jr had 5 seconds of penalties, dropping him into third.

Locally, High River's Jason Glass entered the third event of the season leading in the World Standings.

The U11 Humboldt Thunder Girls Softball team picked up another tournament win, this time winning the Murphy’s tournament in Saskatoon over the weekend.  

In the round robin, the Thunder stormed out to a strong start winning their first three games, 19-2 over the Heat, 25-0 against the Saskatoon Lasers, and 20-0 against the Saskatoon Phantom Blues.  

The 18U AAA East Central Red Sox dropped both games of a doubleheader against the Saskatoon Diamondbacks on Sunday.  

In the first game the Diamondbacks won a wild 14-13 game. Then in the second game, Saskatoon beat the Red Sox 18-6.  

The Diamondbacks led the first game 7-2 after the first four innings before the Red Sox came back with ten runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to lead 12-7.  

The Estevan U13A Bulldogs were busy over the weekend, playing four games against two different opponents.

On Saturday, the Bulldogs hosted the Regina Royals Purge for a doubleheader at home. Estevan came out swinging, taking both games with scores of 10–7 and 12–6. The Bulldogs' pitchers held the Purge to just eight hits across the two games, while Madison Zukewich and Quinn Zahn each launched home runs to power the offence.

It wasn’t a pretty win on Saturday, but the Saskatchewan Roughriders record is looking good at 2-0 following a 28-23 victory against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.  

After being injured in Week 1, running back AJ Ouellette and Rolan Milligan each made a big contribution to the win.  

Ouellette had a 47-yard touchdown run that sparked the green and white offence in the second quarter.  

The Marysburg Royals continued with their winning ways, taking both games in their doubleheader at home against the Saskatoon Outlaws.   

In Game 1, the Royals prevailed 7-1 and in Game 2, they won convincingly 14-4.  

Nick Anderson led Marysburg in the first game with a pair of hits and three RBIs, with Brent Puetz and Mick Rueve each chipping in with two hits each.  

The Weyburn Beavers came up short in their weekend swing through Regina and Saskatoon, falling in all three games to drop to 4-10 on the season. 

It was an afternoon delight for local baseball fans yesterday as the Moose Jaw Miller Express unleashed a relentless attack on the Swift Current 57's. The Millers pounded out 29 hits on their way to a 27-2 win. It started with an 11-run first inning.

Thomas Soto went 4 for 5 with 3 RBI. Austin Gurney was 4 for 4 with 2 RBI. 

Evan Deringer and Abe Ahlberg hit home runs for the winners.

The Millers, now 7 and 8 on the season, are back in action tomorrow night in Swift Current.