Local Sports

The Yorkton Orioles played five games at a tournament in Hudson Bay July 6-8 Twenty teams participated. In their first game, they beat Lanigan by a score of 5-1.

Drew Kirk of Langenburg, SK has a very exciting summer ahead of him. Drew has qualified, in the 800 m, for the Hershey Track and Field North American Finals in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The meet takes place on Aug. 4.

The woes of the 2012 edition of the Yorkton Cardinals of the Western Major Baseball League continue. The Cardinals (as of Monday noon) have won only twice in their last 10-games, and sit mired in the WMBL East Division basement 17.

Anyone in the Yorkton area who is interested in participating in a senior men's football league in the fall is asked to please contact Darcy Zaharia. Players must be 18 years of age or old and be able to play from late August to October.

The Richardson Pee Wee AAA Cardinals were within a whisker of sending a big game into extra innings. Tyler Stratechuk stepped up to the plate in the bottom of their last chance inning with his team trailing by three runs.

The Yorkton Cardinals Mosquito AA baseball team was among the three local clubs that attended their year end tournament at Melville over the weekend. They started off the weekend with a win against the Muenstar Red Sox on Friday.

Well, it had to come to an end sooner or later. And it came to an end on Sunday morning. And Monday too.

Thirteen-year-old Nathan Cochrane of Yorkton is among three young hotshot soccer players who will be playing his game on a bigger stage (field) come the middle of the summer. The local teen who spends most of his time at Ecole St.

If Connor Lutz didn't get a lot out of his high school geography courses, he is getting a much better one these days.

Robert Okeny and Preston Liebrecht, recent graduates of Sacred Heart High School, were both invited to take part in this year's Saskota Bowl football game in Melfort last week.