Local Sports

After three seasons, of trying to rebuild the North Stars' prospect pool and making a run in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Bauer Conference among other things, Ken Pearson will no longer be behind the North Stars' bench.

Just one of the four North Saskatchewan River Baseball League playoff series started last week with the North Battleford Beavers up against the Wilkie Brewers.

Larry Orth was born April 11, 1950, in Esterhazy and started his baseball career in 1961 and continues today.

For 26 years, SGI has sponsored the Saskatchewan Curling Associations Prairieland Curling Camp, and this summer two students from Maidstone applied and were accepted into the program.

Northwest curlers Heather Wood, Megan Babchuk, Kyla Greenwald, Shelby Solomko and Justin Sopyc have returned Nipawin where they experienced Amber Holland's annual Prairieland Curling Camp.

Saskatchewan Men's Mid-Amateur - The runner up at last year's Men's Mid-Amateur event prevailed this time and edged three Northwest golfers and 46 other from across Saskatchewan. Cadmus Delorme won with a four round score of 283.

"Really cool. It's where it all started." Those were the words of professional wakeboarder Rusty Malinoski as he stood on the dock at Humboldt Lake - also known as Stony Lake - last week.

For as long as there has been sports there has been the argument that urban centres have more opportunities for young athletes thus forming better teams.

They're a young club with a new name, and they're hosting Provincials at the end of the month. The newly renamed Humboldt Hammerheads Swim Team is hosting the Provincial Summer Swim Club meet July 30-31 at the Humboldt Aquatic Centre.

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