Local Sports

The Yorkton Harvest AAA Midget hockey club will start their home schedule of the 2011 Saskatchewan Midget AAA Hockey League tonight when they welcome the Notre Dame Hounds to the Farrell Agencies Arena. Game time is 8 p.m.

Paul Toth made one of the best catches, by far, that have been seen this season at Kinsmen Century Field. It came with about seven minutes left in regulation time in a two-score ball game. It was probably the best catch in all of last season, too.

In a six-team tournament, the Sacred Heart junior girls volleyball team won one game after another all the way to the finals Saturday afternoon on home court.

The YRHS junior girls basketball team hosted a one-day tournament Saturday in which they came in third place, said coach Jennifer Ingham. "We finished third in the round robin.

The Yorkton Regional High School Raider junior football team headed to Regina over the weekend to play the Regina Raiders. Regina won the game 42-0, said YRHS head coach Lance Stilborn.

Sept. 17 was marked 'Sports Day' in the City of Yorkton with a number of fun and exciting sports activites held at various locations.

There will be a cross country run at Deer Park Municipal golf course on Sept. 22 (Thursday). The events are scheduled to start at 11 a.m. with the last category expected to start at 2:15 p.m.

Everything seemed to be going fine for the atom Yorkton Gridder football team.

On September 9-10, the Sacred Heart Saints senior boys' volleyball team travelled to the University of Regina for a 20-team tournament. This was the first court action for the senior team at Sacred Heart, said Curtis Moen, coach.