Local Sports

With baseball season just getting underway, a group of umpires got together recently to take in a two-day seminar to boost their rankings as baseball umpires.

Former Winnipeg Jets superstar Dale Hawerchuk tops the list of names of those coming to Yorkton to partake in a senior hockey game with a distinct purpose of trying to raise enough interest in senior hockey to ice a team in Yorkton for the start of n

Yorkton This Week is offering a Sports TV Listing featuring dates and times for a wide variety of sport. See Page C4 for this week's listing.

The Kids of Steel (KOS) Triathlon and Adult Duathlon will be held on May 16 at the Gallagher Centre. The KOS race starts at 8 a.m., and the duathlon at 10 a.m. Please contact Michelle for more info at 783-7942.

Zach Soke, Michael Berezny, Elias Giannoulis, Kailum Gervais, Adam McCannell, Tanner LeSann, John and Dakota Odgers and Spencer Bomboir are a few of the familiar names vying for a spot on the Yorkton Harvest Midget AAA Hockey Club for next season.

The Yorkton Terriers held their annual awards banquet to a packed house at the Gallagher Centre Convention Centre recently.

He's not one to take in a lot of credit, and he sure doesn't seem to want to take any when it comes to broomball but native of Sheho and current resident of Yorkton, Rod Merrit has a one-way ticket stamped for access to the Yorkton Sports Hall of Fam

Anyone who looks forward to a Game 7 in any sport even half as much as I do, will be in for a treat this week. Two of the biggest teams in all of professional sports get down to business this week.

On Saturday, April 17 Yorkton held a OneMatch Stem Cell and Bone Marrow Drive in Honor of Luke Boechler. The event was held in support of the Yorkton Terriers and ran all day at the Gallagher Centre Lobby.