Local Sports

The Cab Female Athlete for the Month of June is known as one of the hardest working athletes in the history of the Sacred Heart track program. Brooke Mentanko has proved herself to be a good leader over her time at Sacred Heart.

For the second week in a row the lacrosse Bulldogs got scoring in bunches. This time it wasn't quite enough to win the game and coach Joe Choptuik said it was because they slacked off at the wrong time and suffered a one-goal loss.

Results for two recent tournaments involving students from the Yorkton Martial Arts Training Centre.

Weston Dressler of the Saskatchewan Roughriders is coming to Yorkton on Canada Day. He will be at the Yorkton Co-op from 3:30-6:30 p.m. at 30 Argyle Str.

Monsters are usually a bad thing but not in this case it isn't. "We almost created a monster, right?" says Roby Sharpe of the Yorkton Minor Football Association on June 19, the final day of play for Kinsmen Tackle.

The Yorkton Cardinals of the South East Senior Baseball League took advantage of more good baseball weather Monday night and used it to take it to the Melville Bison. Going into the contest the Cardinals were sitting at 4-5 in the SESBL standings.

The South East Senior Baseball League picked up this past week after experiencing more rainouts than usual the week before. June 20 produced three games, all played out as scheduled.

Hockey players hoping to play Junior level hockey in the fall have a new way to refine their skills this summer leading up to fall try-out camps. Yorkton Terrier Assistant Coach Casey O'Brien is hosting a summer-long program based out of Melville.

The Yorkton Cardinals were on an extended road trip this past week, playing four in Alberta and a pair in Swift Current. For the local team the results were mixed as they won two of the six Western Major Baseball League encounters.

Former Yorkton AAA Harvest defenceman Damon Severson was drafted over the weekend by the New Jersey Devils.