Local Sports

Unity's Justin Wood won the Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour season opener at the Elmwood Golf Club in Swift Current last weekend. Wood, 19, posted two under-par rounds of 69 and 70 for a two-day total of 139.

New Horizons hit the links for the first time in 2014 on May 12. 16 golfers came out on a sunny, windy, cloudy morning. The first team out and in at 38 was Norm Soiseth, John Dove, Nestor Brunwald and Bruce Dalshaug.

Players change teams every off-season. It's part of the business of sports. Usually, the organization and the players will go their separate ways with no ill will.

The Battlefords North Stars and the Flin Flon Bombers completed the future considerations of a transaction that brought forward Cameron Blair to the North Stars.

Battlefords Minor Football has seen its membership grow as it enters its fourth season of operation.

Big things are set for this CFL season. The Ottawa RedBlacks are beginning their debut season, new stadiums in Hamilton and Ottawa and the league's $40 million-a-year television contract with TSN starts this summer. Tuesday evening was the CFL draft.

A Wilkie team won the Provincial High School Badminton Championship for girls' doubles Saturday afternoon in Warman. Allison Cey and Chelsea Gruber defeated Kylie McDaid and Santanna Bill from Leoville 2-0 (21-16, 21-9) to win the provincial title.

Erik Gardiner was sitting in class when he found out that being drafted into the Western Hockey League (WHL) was a family thing.

The Saskatchewan High School Athletic Association (SHAA) provincial badminton championships were held in Warman on May 10.

Like many testosterone-addled teenagers, Curtis Klashinsky used to arm wrestle his buddies.