Local Sports

A co-ed slo-pitch tournament on July 11, during the Preeceville Lions Western Weekend, attracted 13 teams. Dig Deep defeated CTK to win the A side and Westside defeated Renslip for the win on the B side.

The Yorkton Cardinals were seven-and-three in their last 10 Western Major Baseball League games, pushing the team into second spot in the Saskatchewan Division. Weyburn leads the Division, seven games atop the Cards.

The Yorkton Orioles have been named the 2015 Twilite Maxi Provincial champions after their 2015 ‘A’ Side final opponents were stripped of their title for using an illegal player.

Jaden Porte, a local track and field athlete from Yorkton, recently took part in the Canadian National Track and Field Championships that were held in Edmonton, Alberta, from July 4-5.

The Yorkton R. Miller’s ‘AA’ Bantam Cardinals had just three days to prepare for the 23rd annual Melville Baseball Tournament, not coming together as a team until Tuesday, July 7.

A new country meant a new start for the Parkland Expos midget ‘AAA’ baseball team as the ‘AAA’ Expos went 3-1 in a 16-team baseball tournament down in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

The Yorkton Crush U12 girls’ softball team welcomed four other teams to Yorkton’s JC Beach Ball Complex this past weekend for a five-team Provincial Softball competition.

A full field of 100 golfers spent two beautiful days competing at Yorkton’s Deer Park Golf Course this past weekend in the hopes of winning the 2015 Coors Light Two Person Scramble.

For years athletes have made guarantees. Muhammed Ali, then as Cassius Clay, guaranteed he’d knock out Sonny Liston by the eighth round in 1964, which he did.

After a bright start to the 2015 cricket season, the Yorkton Yorkers have dropped three matches in a row. “The good news is we are bowling and fielding really well this season,” said Thom Barker, president of the Yorkton Cricket Association.