Local Sports

Three members of the Sacred Heart Saints senior football team had the honour of representing the southern part of the province at Football Saskatchewan’s annual Senior Bowl competition in Regina from May 16-19.

The offence ran dry and the defence was nearly non-existent for the Parkland Expos midget ‘AAA’ baseball team Tuesday, May 12, as they fell to the visiting Regina Expos at Melville’s Pirie Field by a score of 10-3.

The Yorkton Minor Football (YMF) Gridders high school football team welcomed Winnipeg’s Murdoch MacKay Clansmen to town this past Thursday for a spring football exhibition game, besting the visiting Clansmen 49-35 in a highly offensive affair.

Last season the Yorkton Yankees came out strong, winning four of their first five games before sputtering towards the end of a rain-shortened regular season, going 3-2-1 in their final six contests to finish the 2014 SESBL season with a 7-3-1 record.

Local business owner and athlete Taryn Romanowich - owner of CrossFit FUNCTION - recently competed at the 2015 CrossFit Games Canada West Open qualifier, finishing second out of nearly three thousand athletes after five weeks of rigorous competition.

The Good Spirit School Division (GSSD) held their annual mandatory qualifying outdoor track and field meet this past Thursday with over 400 students from seven different schools taking part in a full day of what the teachers see as an ‘extended phys.

The Yorkton United Girls U18 team competed in their firt tournament of the outdoor season as they travelled to Saskatoon to compete at the 2015 Lakewood Kickstart. tournament.

The Yorkton Blitz 17U Girls’ volleyball team took part in the Saskatchewan Volleyball Association’s Provincial Championships on the weekend of May 1-3 in Saskatoon.

Mother Nature tried her best to ruin the motocross races at Yorkton’s Millstone Raceway this past Sunday, May 17, however the hard work and determination of volunteers and riders alike kept her at bay long enough for the event to go off without a hit

The Parkland Expos midget ‘AAA’ baseball team welcomed the Swift Current Indians to Melville’s Pirie Field for two games this past Sunday in a rematch of their first series of the season that saw the two teams split a double header back in Swift Curr