Local Sports

I would hate to be a reporter assigned to covering the 2012 Stanley Cup final. I would rather do a story on what Terrell Owens ate for breakfast the morning of Super Bowl XXXIX when his Eagles took on the Patriots.

Yorkton's other Cardinals played a pair of games at home for the first time this season on Sunday afternoon. Just about everything to do with this team is brand new. The coaches. More than half the players.

Over 100 people came out on the first day of the Parkland Racing Association (PRA) stock car race season. New PRA president Dustin Heddon had a good day, his first day on his new job.

The Yorkton Cardinals had a season opening win in the Western Major Baseball League, but have lost their last three going back to Saturday. The win came on the road Friday at Pirie Field in Melville.

In terms of quality discs Millennium products take a back seat to no one in the business. Names such as Orion and Polaris are discs players have come to trust on the course.

Darius Haberstock and Grey McKen spent the May long weekend in Saskatoon as part of the Rider Bowl. The Roughrider Bowl is an intensive 2 1/2 day camp to support the development of Saskatchewan's top returning high school football players.

The Yorkton Bulldogs dropped a pair of road games over the weekend. On Saturday they lost 11-5 in Moose Jaw. On Sunday they came up short in a 9-4 loss at Regina. This weekend, they are on the road in Prince Albert to take on the Predators.

It was a warm and windy day when the Yorkton United FC U14 Core Real Estate Fury hit the field at Sacred Heart High School this past Sunday to take on the UCT Lightning from Regina.

Planning for the 2012-13 season is well under way for Yorkton Minor Hockey (YMH), and they find themselves with one vacant AA coaching position. YMH has been working to fill the Midget AA vacancy, but to date, it has not found one.

On May 26, Yorkton United Chelsea played its season opener against the REU Rush. The score was 4-1 at the half with Jaxon Mcleod scoring the only goal. The second half was a struggle for Yorkton with the final score being 10-1.