Local Sports

In an effort to help promote one of the sports that does not get much attention within the mainstream media, a clinic held by a two-time Olympian was put on at MC Knoll Elementary School in Yorkton recently.

The Saskatchewan Volleyball Association Asics Cup was played in Yorkton this past weekend. The tournament involved girls' teams from all over the province in U17 and U18.Among the competing teams was the U18 Blitz coached by Chris Lohnes.

The Yorkton Sports Hall of Fame is currently accepting applications for the 2011 Induction dinner. Please contact community development parks and recreation for nomination forms or call 786-1750. The deadline to place nominations is January 28.

At a time of year when each and every victory begins to seem even more important then they did back in September and October, the Yorkton Harvest played their only scheduled date last Thursday, having no scheduled games this past weekend.

The Yorkton Terriers are scheduled for two road games this week, one tonight against the Battlefords and one last night scheduled for Kindersley. Yorkton returns home Saturday (Jan. 29) for a rematch from last weekend's game against Notre Dame.

Eight teams made the trip to Yorkton over the weekend as the LDM Foods Mano's Midget Terriers Tier II hockey tournament was held at the Yorkton Kinsmen Arena.

The Terriers have stayed a top the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Sherwood Conference after a split in two games this week. The split leaves the Terriers with a record of 27-14-2-4 for 60 points. Kindersley are four points back, with 56.

Sacred Heart student Preston Liebrecht attended the Golden Barrell track meet in Edmonton over the weekend. He came home from the meet with a gold medal in high jump competition. He also beat his PB (personal best) with a jump of 1.

A win is a win. It doesn't matter who it comes against, where it comes, or how wide a margin of victory it is. Nobody seems to care who they beat anymore, as long as the end result of it is two points in the win column.

A Bantam Tier II hockey tournament was held two weekends ago in Yorkton, and amidst a bunch of close-scoring games was the C-side final between a pair of local rivals.