Local Sports

The Saskatchewan Mixed Team Golf Championship was underway on the weekend in Swift Current and 60 teams hit the links. The tournament featured several local couples competing.

In a fastball (fastpitch) tournament that spanned four days, the Bruno Merchants walked away with the Senior B Men's League Western Canadian title.

A LeRoy volleyball phenom will be playing in the U.S. next season. Mariah Johb of LeRoy will be playing with the Williston State College Tetons women's volleyball team in Williston, North Dakota.

It is time to drop the puck on the Battlefords North Stars' season - or at least the pre-season. Registration and fitness testing begins Friday at 11 a.m. with 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. practice for the 50 players anticipated to be at camp.

August 31-September 2Battlefords North Stars will hold the team's annual tryout camp for the 2012-13 season at the North Battleford Civic Centre. Game sessions are at 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. Sunday.

The North Battleford Touch Football League got started Tuesday night with three games played at 6:30 p.m. The defending league champion Huskies won their game 48-6 over the Western Can Slammers.

Students, staff and parents at John Paul II are surely familiar with the name Nate Jurgens. Soon the high school shop teacher could be recognized across Canada as a sportscaster for theScore.

The average number of New Horizons who golf each week at the North Battleford Golf and Country Club is 36. Monday, there was one more than the average.

Any athlete who has had to recover from an injury can understand the stressful process of resting and rehabbing to ensure their body is fully ready to compete again.

A main stay of entertainment at the Battlefords Ag. Society's Territorial Days have always been the provincial chuckwagons and chariots. Winning top honours in the chuckwagon races was Steven Galloway.