Local Sports

Although school volleyball season is over, the competitive club season is just heating up. The North Battleford Crush U15 team played twice in March, once winning gold and, more recently, being knocked out in the quarter-finals.

Teams across the province are two wins away from making it to HOOPLA, the high school basketball provincial tournament and just four wins away from a provincial title. Before they turn their sights to Regina's HOOPLA, they must win regionals.

Many local area arenas are days away from taking out their ice, if they haven't already done so.

The Battlefords Bantam Sharks, coached by Pat Bugler and Jamie Smith, will see their season draw to a close this weekend with an exhibition game against Spiritwood Friday.

After two games of the championship final hockey, the Maidstone Jets and Meadow Lake Stampeders solved nothing.

Big city or small town kid, it didn't really matter on the weekend. It was one-on-one for the high school provincial wrestling titles.

Game 1: Friday, March 16 in Humboldt 7:30 p.m. Game 2: Saturday, March 17 at Civic Centre 7:30 p.m. Game 3: Tuesday, March 20 in Humboldt 7:30 p.m. Game 4: Wednesday, March 21 at Civic Centre 7:30 p.m.

Jordin Tootoo, who plays with the Nashville Predators in the NHL, may be the most famous hockey player from Nunavut, but he was sending out his praise Tuesday night via Twitter to Rankin Inlet's own Roger Tagoona, as were many fans of the Battlefords

What a year it was. The end of the season hasn't officially hit the North Battleford Youth Bowling Club, but they have already had a career year.

Dozens of skiers enjoyed the beautiful weather on the weekend and members of the Table Mountain Ski and Board Club competed in the final SaskTel Sask Cup series race of the season at Mission Ridge near Fort Qu'Appelle.