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Spring sports have sprung in southeast Saskatchewan

This is Saskatchewan, after all, so I won't tempt the fates by proclaiming the snow and wintery weather have left us for good. Let's just point to the forecast instead.


This is Saskatchewan, after all, so I won't tempt the fates by proclaiming the snow and wintery weather have left us for good.

Let's just point to the forecast instead. The temperatures will be in the teens all week and should hit the 20s by the weekend.

Spring has sprung, and that means outdoor sports are blooming in the Energy City.

After a long winter, the baseball, softball, soccer and lacrosse teams have re-emerged, and racing season is underway. So is fishing season, marked by the annual Walleye Classic last weekend.

Although baseball is underway and the Southeast Legacy Twins are seven games into their season, we won't be seeing as many of the boys of summer as usual at the AA level.

It's a shame that there will be no bantam Haulers team this year. They dominated their Baseball Regina division the last two years, highlighted by their provincial championship victory at Cactus Park two years ago.

The Haulers teams of the last two years had the kind of depth and talent that was unmatched in their league, and it's rare to see clubs at that level have so much balance, especially on the mound. It was the key to their success.

Still, minor sports organizations run into low numbers with certain age groups all the time, and there's nothing you can do about it but wait for reinforcements from the lower levels in the future.

With only nine kids registered in bantam, it would have made no sense to try to pull kids up from peewee to form a AA team. It would have been spreading it too thin, and certainly wouldn't have been in the best interests of the peewees' development.

Still, there will be plenty of outdoor action over the next few months for local sports fans to enjoy.

Start your engines and let's play ball.

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You know, I can't even say I'm surprised by the arrogance of the Toronto Maple Leafs' front office.

Randy Carlyle used to be a good coach. The game has passed him by. When your coach refuses to change anything during a train wreck, he's part of the problem.

So are the players, but there's lots of talent there on paper and there's help coming from the prospect ranks over the next few years.

I would have loved to see what Barry Trotz could have done with the Leafs' horrid blue line, even though it's not the kind of team he's used to coaching.

Given some of the poor decisions and stubborn statements coming out of the team's front office in the last year, this almost feels like a giant "eff you" to the team's critics.

When things like that influence your decisions, you're in trouble.

Contact Josh Lewis at 306-634-2654 or [email protected]. Can we assume Montreal is going to riot either way tonight?

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