Local Sports

The Yorkton Terriers began the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League season with a home-and-home series against Weyburn, earning a split in the two games. The Terriers went into the Red Wings rink Friday and took a season-opening win by a 3-2 score.

The Sacred Heart senior football team picked up where they left off at the end of last year's regular season. They opened up the this year with a 29-7 victory over the visiting Melville Comprehensive Cobras.

The Parkland Racing Association held their year-end finale over the weekend with car action running on both days, said Brendan Dickey, PRA president.

Jason Farrell was no doubt thrilled with the way his team played over the weekend. In fact he insisted that he saw this win coming. "I kind of felt it coming," offered the head coach following his 29-0 shutout victory over the Lumsden Devils.

The Sacred Heart Saints girls soccer team performed remarkably well in Moose Jaw on the weekend at a 16-team tournament that featured some of the top 2A and 3A teams in the province, said coach Jeanne Fetsch.

It should come as little surprise that the best football player on the Saskatchewan Roughriders is also one of the best talkers on the team too. The Riders hosted the Toronto Argonauts in a game that I thought would have been over before it started.

The Yorkton Regional High School Raider Gridder junior football team started out flat in their Sunday afternoon date with the Regina Lakers. Then they turned the tables around completely and won by 12 points.

The Sacred Heart junior football team played their first road game of the season in Melville against the Cobras on Monday. Melville came out on top 24-16.

The Sacred Heart Senior Girls volleyball team has begun the 2011 SHSAA volleyball season. This year's squad is a very young group with only four returning players and nine rookies joining the team.

This past Saturday marked the second time this season for a triple bill of football games at the YRHS Kinsmen Century Field.