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The Garden Valley Zodiacs, Morden Thunder and Morris Mavericks were winners in the Zone 4 High School Hockey League Friday night. Rhett Peters scored the go-ahead goal with 2:49 left as GVC edged the Miller Aces 4-3. Caleb Pauls, Mark Schefer and Caleb Friesen also scored for the Zodiacs. Kaden Blair, Dawson Wiens and Gradyen Franz replied for the Aces. Sam Hildebrand recorded the shutout as the Thunder blanked Northlands Parkway 4-0. Logan Enns, Mason Frost, Mason Leite and Carter Dyck did the goal scoring for the defending champions. Nighthawks goaltender Hayden Janzen made 51 saves.

The Richardson Pioneer Weyburn Red Wings extended their win streak to six with a 2-1 win over the Flin Flon Bombers. An unusually low scoring affair for the Red Wings, as in each of their previous five games they’ve scored six or more goals. The Red Wings don’t mind however, as this win now moves them into fifth place in the SJHL standings.  

The Shaunavon Shadows are off to the SHSAA 4A Nine-Aside provincial quarterfinals after their rushing game shredded the Moose Jaw Vanier Vikings defence Friday evening.

Shadows quarterback Kaleb Little put on an offensive clinic rushing for a season-high five touchdowns and throwing for two more in his team's 54-14 rout over Moose Jaw at Shaunavon's Smith Field. 

"We came out, just wanted to run the ball lots and I got the ball into my hands and it seemed to work so we just stuck with it," Little told Country 94.1 post-game. 

As temperatures fall, the Portage Golf Club is closing up for the year, and General Manager Robby Moar says the season saw a lot of action.

"I think our year at the course was pretty good. We started off with a bit of a rough spring, it was kind of chilly and windy, but it got pretty hot through the summer, and we've had a good fall. So, just going from last year to this year, having the staff that I had, it seemed to be a pretty good year over here, so I'm pretty happy with how things turned out."

The Strathmore Spartans cross country team made it into provincials.

The team finished second in their zone and will be heading to Grand Prairie this weekend for the competition.

"It's been a really great season. We've had a lot of kids come out," said head coach Ian Regnier. "There are no tryouts. If you want to come out and run, you come out and run."

According to Regnier, 17 runners will be packed into a school bus and sent seven hours north for the tournament.

The undefeated streak for the HTA Knights came to an end last night after they suffered their first loss in the game against the 5A second-place team, the Raymond Comets.

The Comets took the meeting with a 47-25 score.

HTA came out strong to start the game after stopping the Comet's first drive and then adding a touchdown on the Knight's first drive of the game. Seth Poelzer, the reigning MVP at the Canada Cup, got HTA on the board first with a long run, beating the Raymond defenders and getting in alone for the touchdown.

Cyle Clayton is playing his first season with the Okotoks Oilers but he is no stranger to the team.

The Strathmore product spent parts of four seasons on the other side of the rink in the AJHL with the Drumheller Dragons and spent three seasons with the Okotoks Oilers U15 AAA, U16 AAA, and U18 AAA teams during his minor hockey career.

Clayton comes from a family of defenders.

The regular season ended off a high note for the Wynyard Bears high school football team, as they picked up a 62-44 win over the Ituna Trojans.  

After both teams came away empty handed on their opening possessions, the points started piling up on the scoreboard.  

Wynyard’s Dawson Malinowski opened the scoring with a 45-yard touchdown run. 

The Swift Current Comp. Colts will begin their journey for a third straight SHSAA 5A South Rural Football League's Tier 2 Championship tomorrow. 

Swift Current will kickoff playoff action at Colts Field against the Estevan Elecs, with the winner moving onto the championship game next weekend against the Moose Jaw Peacock Tornadoes. 

The Colts picked up their lone victory on the season over the Elecs on September 24 30-14.

Stefan Daniel will rest a little easier in the off-season after winning his sixth para triathlon world championship.

Daniel, 27, wasn't about to miss this opportunity for a little redemption from the bike crash that saw him miss the podium at the Paris Paralympics six weeks ago. On Oct. 18, he won the men's standing classification with a time of 59:26 at worlds in Torremolinos, Spain. 

“Today I just felt a sense of relief when I crossed the finish line," he told Triathlon Canada.  "This will make the off-season so much sweeter,” added Daniel. “It was redemption.”