Local Sports

Both the Yorkton United U10 Sonics and the Yorkton United U12 soccer teams traveled to Regina to take part in the sixth annual Challenge Cup, which was co-hosted by the Queen City and U.C.T. Soccer Clubs.

Sacred Heart High School (SHHS) held it's annual winter/spring sports awards banquet recently. Many athletes took home prestigious awards, from Rookie of the Year through to MVP.

Yorkton's sophomore cricket team is off to another slow start this season dropping its first three matches in Saskatchewan Cricket League ODP (One Day Provincial) play.

They battled back hard, but in the end it was not enough as the Yorkton United U14 boys team is still without a victory in Saskatchewan Premier Soccer League play after a 4-3 home loss to Regina's Unidad Juniors.

Members of the YRHS and SHHS track clubs teamed up this past Friday and Saturday to represent the East Central district at the 2014 SHSAA Provincial Track Meet in Moose Jaw.

For the last two years the Yorkton Yankees have been the juggernauts of the South East Senior Baseball League (SESBL), amassing a 25-1-2 regular season record and a 10-2 playoff record for a total record of 35-3-2 en route to back-to-back SESBL title

It has been a rough season for the Yorkton Peewee 'AAA' Cardinals so far and on Sunday, June 8 it got a whole lot rougher. That's because the visiting Swift Current Indians crushed the Cardinals 21-0 in Game One and 14-0 in Game Two.

The Beautiful Game, first called so by Brazilian great Pele, will take centre stage starting Thursday, June 12, when the host nation Brazil takes on Croatia in Game One of Group A play in the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Yorkton R. Miller's Midget Cardinals first-year pitcher/catcher Tyson Black became the second Cardinals player to win the Saskatchewan Premier Baseball League 'AA' Boston Pizza Player of the Week after teammate Mason Kelley won the award last week.

Everyone should have the chance to experience organized sports, special needs or not. That was what was in the mind of Roby Sharpe and company when they started the 'Getting in the Game' program over a year ago. Sharpe and co.