Local Sports

Estevan Comprehensive School is proving it's a force to be reckoned with on the badminton courts. Three athletes represented ECS at the Saskatchewan High Schools Athletic Association badminton provincials on Saturday in Wilkie.

The opening of the 2010 fishing season is sure to be a memorable one for a pair of Bienfait residents.

A large gathering of potential Weyburn Minor Football athletes dog-pile University of Rams players, and local youth, Brett Jones and Kyle Paterson, each holding the football.

A local bowler recently returned from representing Saskatchewan at the singles competition of the five-pin junior nationals.

Estevan residents had the chance to meet one of Canada's golden girls Saturday. Three-time Olympic gold medal winning hockey player Jayna Hefford was in the Energy City for the grand re-opening of the Canadian Tire store on King Street.

For 40 minutes Saturday, the Estevan Big Dogs looked like they might win their Prairie Gold Lacrosse League season opener for the first time in their three-year history.Then came the penalties. And more penalties. And more penalties yet.

Brent Batten started work as the Estevan Bruins' marketing/operations manager on Monday.It may have been the first time he'd looked forward to setting foot inside the Civic Auditorium.

Getting beat up the night before their home opener might have been the best thing to happen to Estevan Devils players Rhett Handley, River Lafferty, and Trey Anderson.

While the Rider Nation debated over possible roles for Shomari Williams, whom the Saskatchewan Roughriders were expected to take first overall in the CFL Canadian Draft, veteran Riders linebacker Mike McCullough already had his soon-to-be teammate's

The relationship between hockey coaches and officials is not always a pretty one, so the Estevan Minor Hockey Association is taking steps to improve it.