Local Sports

The Battlefords Bantam Sharks opened their season with two wins on the weekend. Friday, the Sharks hosted Viking, Alta. Danae Bugler was sharp in net as the Sharks came away with a 1-0 victory.

Two will become one. That is the case for the two curling clubs in the Battlefords, the North Battleford Granite Curling Club and Battleford Community Co-operative Curling Club, that will dissolve into one new entity.

The Northwest section of the province was represented by three school divisions, 14 schools and 51 students at the provincial cross-country meet in Middle Lake and it was Borden of the Central Valley division turning in the best results.

The Battlefords Bantam AA Barons hold an 0-2-0 record in the newly formed Saskatchewan Bantam AA Hockey League, but they did however win their last game.

The John Paul II Crusaders may have failed to make the playoffs in their first season of nine-man football, but the season, the first in school history, was something to be proud of and something to build on in the future.

The Battlefords North Stars were back in their home locker room Tuesday night to begin a lengthy home stretch of Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League action and they impressed.

It is down one game, winner take all in the North Battleford Touch Football League. The Huskies who went 13-1 during the regular season are matched up with the Gophers, who were third overall at 11-3 in the league championship game.

It was a smackdown at the Elgar Petersen Arena last week when the Humboldt Broncos took on the LaRonge Ice Wolves. Though it didn't start out that way. The Broncos got off to a very slow start in the game, played October 11.

Nearly 600 runners hit the trails at Lucien Lake Regional Park on October 15, competing in the Saskatchewan High Schools Athletics Association (SHSAA) Provincial Cross Country Championships, hosted by Three Lakes School in Middle Lake.

On Friday, October 14, the Humboldt Collegiate Institute (HCI) Mohawks felt something they had not felt in 16 games: the sting of defeat. The Melfort Comets came into Glen Hall Park not having beaten HCI since 2008, and not in Humboldt since 2000.