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Ocean Smart is a name anyone familiar with curling in the Battlefords would recognize. Smart was one of the Battlefords' top high school curlers while she attended John Paul II.

Some of the best competition of high school-aged wrestlers from Western Canada gathered in Saskatoon on the weekend.

That's why they play the games. The first round of the Saskatchewan Prairie Hockey League playoffs began Wednesday and it was the two lower seeded teams earning wins in the first game.

The Saskatoon Contacts were looking to avenge the last meeting between the themselves and the Battlefords Midget Stars. Jan. 22 the last place Stars tied the first place Contacts 5-5.

They are the hottest team in the Battlefords and the hottest team in the Saskatchewan Bantam AA Hockey League. The Battlefords Phoenix Sports Bantam AA Barons are undefeated in 2012.

As it should be, the North Saskatchewan River Hockey League standings were not determined until the final day of the regular season.

As the final push for Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League playoff positions heat up, so to do some of the league's best players. For the second straight week, Melville's Ian McNulty has been named the player of the week.

They've got all the volunteers they need. On the evening of January 24, Humboldtonians who hadn't already signed up to be a part of the 2012 RBC Cup, coming up in May, seized the opportunity at the RBC Cup Volunteer Blitz.

It was a shiny weekend for the North Battleford Comprehensive High School senior basketball teams. The boys won gold while the girls earned a silver medal at their tournaments. The boys were at the Prince Albert St.

Lyndon Rush has been racing down some slippery European slopes this winter with Canada's bobsleigh team. But it was back in Canada just last weekend, when the Humboldt-born athlete finally tasted victory.