Local Sports

From border to border, coast to coast and even overseas hockey players from the Battlefords and area are stepping up and showing their leadership qualities.

If junior and university football teams don't come knocking after high school some players no longer strap on the pads and play. For three players with a Unity connection and one with ties to Wilkie, that hasn't been t the case.

Anyone who has watched youth baseball in Unity could see that 16-year-old Rhett Feser loved to play and had a talent and head for the game. The left handed pitcher could be seen nightly at the Unity diamonds practicing both pitching and hitting.

The John Paul II Crusaders football team started the season with an win over Kindersley, but since then, they have lost two games and find themselves in the fight for a playoff spot with three games remaining. The Crusaders were in Warman Sept.

The Melfort Comets scored early and often en route to a 65-7 thrashing of the Humboldt Collegiate Institute (HCI) Mohawks on the football field last Friday in Melfort.

They're ba-ack!The Humboldt Broncos took off on the right skate with a win at home in their first game of the season.The Broncos opened their season at home on September 22 with a game against the Notre Dame Hounds.

The John Paul II Collegiate golf team joined 14 other school teams and 73 other male high school golfers in Prince Albert for the provincial grass green golf championship on the weekend.

To all those local ball players who played minor, junior and senior baseball against North Battleford's Andrew Albers, don't feel bad that you couldn't hit his pitches.

It took nine games, but the league-leading Rhinos were finally handed their first loss. North Battleford Touch Football League action resumed Tuesday at Beaver Lions Stadium and it was the Huskies improving to 7-1 on the season.

Two hundred skaters. One hundred coaches. Thirty officials. That's how many people involved in figure skating will be visiting Humboldt this winter, to compete in the 2013 Saskatchewan STARSkate Championships, hosted by Skate Humboldt.