The Estevan Comprehensive School senior girls basketball team hosted their 4A conference championship on Friday and Saturday.
The Elecs qualified for regionals by making it to the semifinals at the tournament, which included seven teams.
ECS hammered Yorkton Regional High School 70-28 in their first game on Friday night to easily move on to the semis.
In their second game on Saturday, the Elecs lost 67-46 to Weyburn.
Notre Dame, the top seed in the tournament, defeated Weyburn 96-71 in the final after getting past Yorkton Sacred Heart in the semis.
Regionals for the Elecs are in Lumsden this weekend. Their first game in the single-elimination tournament is against Swift Current on Friday.
Meanwhile, the ECS senior boys team also qualified for regionals through their conference championship in Balgonie.
The Elecs began with a 73-50 victory over Melville on Friday.
Next, they earned an upset 76-60 victory over Yorkton Sacred Heart, the ninth-ranked team in the province in the month of February, largely due to 40 minutes of full court press, said Elecs head coach Shane Ross. The Elecs lost by 16 points when the two teams met earlier in the season.
ECS drew Weyburn in their third game. Against a team ranked in the top five in the province, the Elecs trailed by 15 points after the third quarter and saw that deficit doubled in the fourth for a 96-65 loss. It was, however, Weyburn's smallest margin of victory over the Elecs this year.
Ross said Josh Jensen, Vince Dela Pena, Mitchel Clark and Dallas Dowhanuik stepped up their game during the weekend, averaging 35-plus minutes per game.
"Their motor, positive attitude and coachabilility never quit going all weekend," he said.
The boys will be at regionals in Moose Jaw this weekend, where they must upset the top-ranked 4A team in the province, A.E. Peacock, to advance.
