Local Sports

The YRHS football team took its second 'preseason' challenge in the past two weeks as they played host to the Crocus Plains Plainsmen of Brandon in an exhibition football game Friday afternoon. Everything seemed to click in a 46-14 win over Brandon.

Jessica Lutz had a pretty good day at the East Central Districts qualifier a couple weeks back. The Gr.

The SESBL schedule picks up again tonight following a break for the long holiday weekend.

Ecole St. Michael's School fared well at the Yorkton Catholic Elementary Track Meet May 17 at Kinsmen Century Field in Yorkton. Notes Gary Forgeron of Ecole St.

Darren Wandy's days of archery are over. Luckily for the MCS, they aren't over for good. The current athletics director is leaving the YRHS. That means he's also leaving behind the archery team.

Yorkton has a strong showing of girls who've made the cut as Saskatchewan Roughrider cheerleaders. Now they've got another, only she's not one of the girls. She's their new cheerleading coach.

Daredevil Discs are one of my favourite disc golf lines, and it's great they are a Canadian manufacturer to boot.

The Yorkton Cardinals of the Western Major Baseball League will look to an Ontario righty to be a big part of their 2012 bullpen. Michael McCue, 21, grew up in Toronto, Ont.

Joel Thompson of Yorkton's Columbia School was among the competitors at the 2012 Provincial Championships of Archery recently in Moose Jaw. He was in the Gr. 4-5-6 competition class.

Welcome to another year of golf disc reviews. It already has been an unusual season at Patrick Park Golf Course. I managed four rounds in late March and the weather was actually great even in comparison to spring normally.