Local Sports

The Yorkton Speed Swim Club recently competed at the Regina Optimist Dolphin Swim Club (RODS) Invitational Swim Meet in Regina. The meet was held over three days at the Lawson Aquatic Center.

The Yorkton Yankees did not have the greatest season opener recently when they played against the Canora Supers. The opening game of the 2011 South East Senior Baseball League's season was supposed to have gotten underway on May 10.

Coaching became something he eventually became hooked on but it did not seem like much fun when he first started out over 10 years ago. "When I first started it, I hated it. I didn't know what I was doing for the first two years.

The Alexander Mens Wear Junior Cardinals went into the Victoria Day long weekend on the upside following a 18-3 victory over the Parkland Padres on home field last Thursday night.

A seemingly large group of staff and students from the Regional High School in Yorkton are anxiously looking forward to this year's Walk and Roll, an initiative which they are hoping will catch on like a major flu epidemic.

The GSSD held their annual track and field meet Friday morning at the Yorkton Regional High School's Century Field and at the end of the day, four records had been broken.

The YRHS held their 4th Annual Archery Shoot took place over the weekend in their home gymnasium. Numerous thank yous went out to individuals for being a well-run tournament.

Her school colours are gold and green but Morgan Shymanski's new favourite colour has got to be gold. It's been quite the golden year for the Gr. 9 student at Sacred Heart High School.

Anyone who happened to be flipping the TV channels last Wednesday night and found a channel which showed a bunch of basketball players acting like they were rioting, could easily be forgiven if he/she thought something of unbelievably high importance

The City of Yorkton parks staff has taken the initiative to implement a new sport. There is a course set up for nine-hole disc golf at Patrick Park on King St. Holes were filled recently and the course is ready for play.