Local Sports

The Yorkton United Chelsea boys team travelled to Regina on Saturday to take part in the Regina Soccer Associations Premier league cup competition. Chelsea drew the UCT Lightning in its first game.

The lacrosse Bulldogs played twice over the weekend, road dates in Saskatoon, where they took on the Saskatoon Smash Saturday and the Steelers on Sunday afternoon.

The Alexander Men's Wear Junior Cardinals got a good taste of some quality ball here Sunday afternoon when a team called the Red Sox rolled into town. They weren't from Boston but they had at least one guy who could really hit the baseball and hard.

The Yorkton E and S Yankees increased their winning streak to four games as they defeated the tough Willowbrook Royals 4-2 at Jubilee Park Wednesday June 8.

Despite the bottom half of the course not quite playable as of yet, the York Lake Golf and Country Club has a few things to look forward to this summer. One of them is the good weather that came around Yorkton and area for most of Friday.

The Yorkton Cardinals have struggled out of the gate in the Western Major Baseball League, having won only two games in eight outings. The resulting .250 winning percentage have the Cardinals mired in the basement of the league's East Division 5.

A Regina-based group known as the Cavaliers Sports and Social Club came to the Gallagher Centre Flexihall to give a handful of locals, including a couple of sports reporters a crash course in the sport of cricket.

The June Female Athlete of the Month is another multi-sport athlete here at Sacred Heart. She has been on the soccer team, junior girl's basketball team and the track and field team. Her coaches describe her as tenacious and dedicated.

SMX Racing is pleased to announce theta Yamalube has joined them for the 2011 CMRC Canadian National race season and will be known as Team Yamalube Schrader's SMX Racing.

It wasn't a bad day for some horseshoe throwing Saturday morning at the park on First Avenue. The Yorkton Horseshoe Club held its annual sanctioned tournament June 4 on the Old Drake School Grounds. The day included both singles and doubles.