Local Sports

The Southwest Cougars win streak has reached eight games. Micky Gross made 41 saves, and Southwest defeated the Interlake Lightning 3-1 in Teulon. Shane Elder, Jack Polasek and Lynden Gould did the goal scoring for the Cougars. 

The Steinbach Huskies and Ste. Anne Aces were winners in the Hanover Tache Junior Hockey League Sunday night. Cody Neufeld scored twice as Steinbach defeated Grunthal 3-1. Samuel Bergen had the other Huskies goal on a penalty shot 50 seconds after Neufeld scored the go-ahead goal early in the middle period. Carter Braun had the lone goal for the Red Wings. The Grunthal captain beat Steinbach netminder Connor Stewart just 11 seconds into the game. The Aces snapped their two-game losing skid. Ste. Anne downed the Gators 8-3 at the East St. Paul Community Centre.

The Winkler Flyers dropped a 3-1 decision to the Portage Terriers Sunday afternoon at Stride Place. Nicholas Mckee had the lone goal for the defending Turnbull Cup champions who have lost three of their last four games.

Austin Spicer scored his second goal of the game 3:08 into overtime to lift Pembina Valley past the Transcona Railer Express 4-3. Ty Sadowski and Slade Sotheran also scored for the Twisters who snapped their 10-game losing skid.

The Humboldt Broncos went to work quickly and efficiently to shut down the Melville Millionaires on Saturday night to skate away with a 6 - 3 win.  

Jeter Korte opened the scoring at the 8-minute mark with a slick a fake and top shelf move as you'll see to beat Mills goalie Luke Brunen.  

Then closing in on the end of the first Tre Fouquette took a shot from the point for the second Broncos goal. 

The Moose Jaw Warriors are back at home after winning just one of five games on their tour through the BC Division of the Western Hockey League. That win came against the Royals, in Victoria on Friday night by a score of 4-2. They finished off the trip with a 6-2 loss to Vancouver Saturday night. 

The Warriors are on home ice this Friday, when they’ll host the Lethbridge Hurricanes. 

Sunday, November 3rd

MJHL
Portage 3 Winkler 1
Virden 4 Waywayseecappo 2

The Cochrane Chaos are not only undefeated in their first 10 games, they're winning by large margins.

On the road over the weekend, they racked up 15 goals to their opponents three goals to stay on top of the AJFHL standings as the only undefeated team.

On. Nov. 2, the Chaos took a five goal lead before the Calgary Titans scored their lone goal late in the second in the 7-1 win.

The next day in Lethbridge, the Chaos scored four goals in the third to open up an 8-2 win against the Eagles.

A hard-fought game between the Portage Terriers and the Winkler Flyers ended with a 3-1 win for the Dogs.

A scoreless first period saw Portage outshoot Winkler 12-8 but both goaltenders made some outstanding saves to keep both offenses off the board.

The Flyers would open the scoring in the second period on a powerplay goal, but the Terriers would have a great shift right after to tie the game up. Decker Mujcin scored his fourth goal of the weekend, set up by Tristan Gravenor and Koy Funk.

Kolbee Ashe scored in overtime as Team Saskatchewan got off to a winning start at the U18 Women's National Championship in New Brunswick.

Rayna Hennie and Raela Packet of the Swift Current Innovation Federal Credit Union Wildcats are playing for Saskatchewan at the event. 

They both played a regular shift as Team Atlantic took a 1-0 lead into the final minutes of the third period.

Berlin Lolacher had Saskatchewan's other goal to force overtime.

They play the defending champions from Ontario Red as round robin continues on Monday at 8am.

Kolbie Parker tackles new role as forward, looks ahead to promising season with Klippers