Local Sports

George Kohlman's younger baseball years were spent playing ball for Palm country school near Primate. At 15, he was asked to play senior ball with the Palm Flyers, later known as St. Anthony's.

As the baseball season has wrapped up in the Northwest, players who honed their skills in the area are still in action and will be playing for championships.

Lorne Strueby of Manitou Beach likely started playing catch with a baseball around the same time he started to walk. First he played with his older brothers Arnold, Walter and Art.

The City of Humboldt is restarting a recreational hockey program for youth this winter. The Kids' Recreational Hockey program is being revamped in response to a need in the community.

They were so close to a provincial title, they could almost taste it. But it was not meant to be. The Marysburg Royals senior baseball team competed at the Saskatchewan Senior AA championship tournament in Yorkton August 4-5.

Nineteen members of the Humboldt Hammerheads Swim Team headed to Provincials in Regina on the August long weekend, just days after competing at the Saskatchewan Summer Games in Meadow Lake.

The third annual Football Canada 6 Nations Challenge is set to begin in less than a week and some local players and a coach are looking forward to the opportunity.

A birdie putt for the win, that is what it came down to for the Battlefords' Tim Acaster, as he drained his birdie putt on the 18th hole at the North Battleford Golf and Country Club on Sunday.

Brian Weisbrod of Lumsden is just days away from taking his place in the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame, as the class of 2012 will be inducted Saturday.

It was a beautiful day Thursday, especially for the team of Art Strueby, Ray Hoover and Fay MacKinnon, as they eagled number four and came in as the top team of the New Horizons golf at North Battleford Golf and Country Club.