Local Sports

The Senior AA Tier 4 Provincial Baseball Championships were held in Langenburg from August 12-14. Seven teams from across Saskatchewan played throughout the weekend, but the home team came away with the gold medal.

Just in time for the new academic athletics season, Yorkton This Week has a new sports reporter. Stefanie Davis comes to us from St.

“It’s good to see that Kamsack’s becoming a young town again,” said a former resident who co-ordinated a slo-pitch fundraising event to raise money for a 10-year reunion.

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For the first time in Saskatchewan’s history, a rural Saskatchewan Senior team, the Assiniboine Aces, won a gold medal during the Saskatchewan Senior Fitness Association’s provincial tournament.

The Yorkton Yankees have repeated as Southeast Baseball League champions. The Yankees completed a three-game sweep of the final over Langenburg last week.

The Yorkton Orioles came up a bit short in their bid for a national 43-plus Canadian baseball championship.

The Yorkton Cardinal’s Western Major Baseball League season came to an end Sunday at Jubilee Park in Yorkton. The Cardinals dropped an 8-5 decision to Swift Current, which concluded a WMBL East Division final sweep by the Indians.

The Roblin Stars were simply no match for the second-seeded Canora Supers in the first round of the Southeast Senior Baseball League (SESBL) playoffs, said Greg Andreychuk, player-coach.

A young teenager from Canora was celebrated for receiving an award naming him Saskatchewan’s Baseball Umpire of the Week.