Local Sports

The final competitive minor hockey game in the Battlefords was played Sunday at Don Ross Arena. The Battlefords Bantam A Barons hosted Yorkton in the provincial final. Sunday's game was an evenly-matched, hardworking game ending in a 4-4.

Both Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League series were 2-1 in favour of the higher seed after three games.

The University of Alaska Anchorage Seawolves' season came to an end March 16 when they were eliminated from the playoffs by St. Cloud State.

Few players get to wear the Team Canada red as a baseball player and the number of small-town Saskatchewan baseball players is just a tiny fraction of that.

The New Horizons spring curling has come to a close before the spring arrived and long before the snow has left. In the morning draw March 19 on sheet one, the Hagen rink, who didn't count often but never-the-less did it big over the Forester group.

In just the second season of existence, the John Paul II cheer team is fired up. That enthusiasm showed, as they competed in the Warman Cheer Classic March 16 and 17.

The final weekend of Saskatchewan's high school version of March Madness is now over.

March 21 1978 - The San Diego Padres fired manager Al Dark. He was the second manager ever to be fired during Major League Baseball's spring training season. 1994 - Wayne Gretzky tied Gordie Howe's National Hockey League record of 801 goals.

It wasn't ideal road conditions, but that didn't stop the Battlefords Bantam AA Barons from playing in Warman Wednesday evening. The Barons faced the Sask Valley Vipers in the Saskatchewan Bantam AA Hockey League's North Division final.

The Lisa Chambers juvenile curling rink competed in North Battleford at the Northland Power Curling Centre March 8 and 9 and from there moved on to provincials in Shaunavon.