Local Sports

Sandwiched between winning a second straight Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League championship and heading to their second straight Western Canada Cup (WCC) tourney, the Yorkton Terriers held their spring camp on the weekend.

The Yorkton Terriers are the only team returning from year one of the Western Canada Cup.

When the Manitoba Junior Hockey League playoffs began, not many people would have picked the Winnipeg Blues to win the Turnbull Trophy championship.

There are any number of ways to be a Dragon Slayer in the electronic world, but the Spruce Grove Saints preferred to earn that title in the real world, on the ice, in the championship round of the Alberta Junior Hockey League.

On April ninth Sacred Heart hosted the city playoffs for the senior Badminton teams. Coaches Shawn Redmond from the Regional and Jeanne Fetsch and Jim Grela from Sacred Heart thought there was some great action with many close matches.

The Yorkdale Royals girls' basketball team won their third consecutive YESSA city title on Wednesday, April ninth at the M.C. Knoll/St. Michael's gymnasium with a dominant 32-7 victory over the St. Michael's Stars, while the M.C.

Yorkton KidSport is hosting the 3rd Annual Stix Street Hockey Tournament in Yorkton presented by Superstore and Richardson. The tournament will take place on May 3, 2014 in the Kinsmen Arena parking lot.

Local soccer player Rita Fetsch, a standout striker for Sacred Heart's provincial champion girls' soccer team, has recently won the prestigious Saskatchewan Player of the Year award, beating Humboldt native Joel Zimroz, who trains with the Vancouver

The Yorkton Terriers seem to like overtime, having won their last four playoff games in extra time, including the opening two games in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League final.

It might not be Brazil, but the World Class Players (WCP) World Cup in Regina this month is giving 18 members of Yorkton United FC a chance to experience what it's like to represent a soccer nation in an international tournament.