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Damon Dutton has experience going up against other basketball players from around Canada. This time, he’ll be doing it on a much bigger stage.

There’s usually an adjustment for a first year team when they join a league. So far, the Battlefords Trappers are proving to be an exception to that rule.

For most it is an honour we will never receive but for Kelly Bates that honour is about to become a reality.

Battlefords AAA Stars defenceman Luke Reid will be heading out to the west coast for the upcoming season.

After getting a number of runners on base in their last couple of home games, North Battleford Midget AA Beavers head coach Bert Benoit felt like his team was due for some good luck when it came to putting runs on the board.

As she helped Hailey Dyck and Kyra Kolenosky prepare for their first ever trip to the Gym Sask provincial championships, Battlefords Gymnastics Club head coach Danielle Clark wasn’t quite sure what to expect.

With only a handful of players returning from last year’s team, it was expected to be a transitional process for the North Battleford Midget AA Beavers at the start of this campaign.

It wasn’t quite the performance the Wilkie Brewers had in mind to start off their defence of the North Saskatchewan River Baseball League championship.

It was a long and winding road for Carmel’s Jerome Engele who played 100 games in the National Hockey League and is now being inducted into the Humboldt and District Hall of Fame at their 2017 induction ceremony.

As he looked back on the progression of his team’s run to the 2017 Canalta Cup championship, Battlefords North Stars head coach and general manager Nate Bedford was able to pinpoint a key moment when their journey to a Saskatchewan Junior Hockey Leag