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Playoffs are now set in the Senior SWAC Volleyball leagues.

The senior girls' playoffs start on Tuesday with Frontier hosting the championship bracket. Frontier is the top seed and will face Herbert, while Vanguard goes up against Shaunavon. The first and third place matches will follow.

Consul hosts the consolation playoffs with the hosts, Maple Creek and Gull Lake playing a round robin.

Canada is undefeated at the Pan Continental Curling Championships in Lacombe.

Brad Gushue opened the tournament with a 10-3 win over Korea on Sunday and followed that up with a 17-1 win over Chinese Taipei in the late draw.

Rachel Homan is off to a 1-0 start after beating the United States 9-2.

Homan will take on Chinese Taipei at 9 a.m. this morning and will wrap up the day at 7 p.m. against China.

Gushue's lone game today is against New Zealand at 2 p.m.

All games take place at the Gary Moe Auto Group Sportsplex in Lacombe.

The Westman Wildcats are riding a four-game win streak. Ivy Perkin, Lucy Waldner and Jaedyn Hoemsen did the goal scoring and Indigo Stone made 31 saves as Westman defeated the defending champion Winnipeg Ice 3-1 Sunday at Hockey for All Centre. The Wildcats (6-2) are tied with the Eastman Selects for first place in the Manitoba Female U18 AAA Hockey League.

Kali Remillard and Sophia Heidinger scored two goals each in the Eastman Selects 5-1 victory over the Pembina Valley Hawks Sunday in Niverville. Isabelle Carriere also scored for the Selects (6-1) who received a 27-save performance from Addison Tomes. Eastman is tied with the Westman Wildcats for first place in the Manitoba Female U18 AAA Hockey League. 

The winless skid is now at 7 games and the Moose Jaw Warriors have dropped to last in the WHL standings. The Warriors were shutout 6-0 in Kelowna Friday, and dropped a 6-4 decision to the Blazers in Kamloops on Saturday. The Warriors will play the Cougars in Prince George tomorrow. 

In Junior C hockey, the Caronport Aviators battled to a 6-6 tie with the Emerald Park Wizards in their first game of the season on Saturday.

In Kinsmen Minor Football, the MJ Raiders won the U14 City Championship over the weekend with a 35-6 win over the Weyburn Falcons. 

Ryler Gates made 28 saves in the Pembina Valley Hawks 4-1 victory over the Kenora Thistles. Haiden Friesen, Carson Hiebert, Ryder Wolfe and Casey Magarrell did the goal scoring for the Hawks who completed a weekend home-and-home sweep. Pembina Valley shaded the Thistles 3-2 on Saturday in Kenora. 

The Pembina Valley Hawks dropped a 5-1 decision to the Eastman Selects. Casey O'Brien scored the lone goal for the Hawks with 6:59 remaining in the third period. Pembina Valley netminder Kasia Rakowski made 31 saves. 

For the second time this season, the Okotoks Oilers and the Cranbrook Bucks played a home-and-home series and split the back-to-back games over the weekend.

When the BCHL Interior Division rivals met in September, it was the home teams coming away with the win. In this weekend's contests, it was the opposite, with the visiting teams going home victorious. 

The High River Flyers only had one game on their 2024-2025 HJHL schedule this weekend.

The Flyers were in Didsbury on Saturday night (Oct. 26), with the Mountainview Colts edging out High River 3-2 in overtime. The Flyers have come away with at least one point in their last three games and have gone 1-0-2. The win came from a 6-1 victory on the road to the Coaldale Copperheads, and the first overtime loss came to the 9-3-0 Medicine Hat Cubs on October 18.

The ATCO Field at Spruce Meadows will be the setting for a Championship match in the Canadian Premier League.

Cavalry FC earned their way into the Championship match with a 1-0 victory over the Forge FC in Hamilton on Sunday.

Cavalry FC got their first-half game-winning goal from Tobias Warschewski.

The club now has two weeks to prepare for the Championship final, which will be held on Sunday, November 9, at 1 p.m. at ATCO Field.

Cavalry FC will face the winner of the semi-final match between the Forge and Atlético Ottawa.

Two games were on tap for the Carstar Okotoks Bisons this weekend.

The Herd trampled the Coaldale Copperheads on Friday night (Oct. 25) at Murray Arena in a 6-2 win. Sam Callahan had a first-period hat trick and finished the night with four points. McCallum Bakken picked up two assists on Callahan's hat trick, with Kaelan Bodnarchuk, Hunter Cobb, and team captain Jake Snashall adding a helper each. Callahan sits tied for first place for most goals in the league, as he has 13 goals in 11 games.