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It could signal the start of a young hockey player's career.

After postponing the North Battleford Golf and Country Club's spring Scramble April 26 and 27, the game was on this past weekend - for one day of golf.

It wasn't hard to determine who were the winners of the New Horizons golf Monday. Just one team came in with a 36.No surprise, but it was the Whitbreads, Lyle and Jutta, along with a little help from John Yarske and Bruce Dalshaug.

Many hockey fans were anticipating the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Humboldt Broncos and the British Columbia Hockey League's Penticton Vees to be the two top teams at the 2012 RBC Cup.

Not only is the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum known for its many historical baseball artifacts, but in the near future there will be another must see attraction in Battleford. The Sask.

Monday marked the start of the 2012 Battlefords Minor Football season, as dozens of Grade 7 and 8 students had their first football practice.

It wasn't exactly fastball weather Wednesday, but that didn't stop the ball players in the Battlefords and District Ladies' Fastball League. Opening day saw three games at the Flats in Battleford, as all eight teams were in action.

She has been in the Battlefords for 17 years and has coached synchronized swimming since she arrived, but for the first time as a member of the North Battleford Water Doves, Sheila Parker, competed in a competition herself.

Forty-two years of rodeo in the Battlefords was celebrated on the weekend, as the annual Kinsmen Indoor Rodeo took place at the North Battleford Civic Centre.

He was one of the homegrown talents on the Battlefords North Stars that many fans rooted for and always wanted to see him succeed.