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With the NCAA March Madness tournament less than 10 days away I felt it would be the perfect time to discuss how much Canada has improved when it comes to basketball and to focus on the Canadians who are dominating NCAA college basketball down south.

The basketball season is officially over for the YRHS Raiders senior boys basketball team after they fell 65-40 to the Prince Albert Carlton Crusaders this past weekend in Regional play.

For years the Yorkton Blitz volleyball team has practiced in the gymnasiums of several Yorkton schools.

The Yorkton Bantam UCT Terriers have completed step two of their road to the SBAAHL playoff championship by sweeping aside their first round opponent, the seventh ranked Moose Jaw Warriors, two-games-to-none in the best of three SBAAHL first round wi

The Yorkton Terriers clinched first overall in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League Friday with a 2-1 overtime win in Flin Flon. Daylan Gatzke struck mid-way through the opening frame to give the Terriers a 1-0 lead.

The Yorkton Harvest squeaked into the SMAAAHL playoffs by virtue of a tie and an overtime win in Moose Jaw on Saturday 22 and 23, giving the Harvest the eighth and final playoff spot in Saskatchewan's premier midget hockey league.

The Lady Saints were set to travel to Estevan for Conference playoffs on Friday, February 28.

Seven athletes from the Yorkton Taekwondo Club made the long journey across the frigid Saskatchewan plain to take part in the 2014 instalment of Grandmaster Kim's Taekwondo Challenge held at Regina's Turvey Centre.

The YRHS Raiders senior boys basketball team lived to fight another day thanks to their impressive 61-59 come-from-behind victory over the Balgonie Greenall Griffins at the conference playoffs in Balgonie this past weekend.

Eleven members of the Yorkton Springers Gymnastics Club recently participated in the Marian You Make My Heart Flip! Invitational hosted by Saskatoon's Marian Gymnastics Club.