After a successful Saskatchewan Winter Games in North Battleford last week, Team Southeast has shown they just keep on improving.
Team Southeast kept the Joe Griffith Trophy for a second consecutive Games, earning a trophy presented to the most improved district at the Games.
When it came to the flag points, team Southeast finished fifth in the province with 128 points, an improvement of 32 on their 2014 total.
In total, the team won 10 gold medals, eight silver medals and 15 bronze medals.
The synchronized swimming team won bronze with a total of 113.1812 points. The team included Estevan’s Gemma Bittman, Haley Copeland, Nyla Dyck, Caitlyn Graham, Hannah Mantei and Marlie Weinrauch, as well as coach Brenda Lyons.
Jean Rose Be of Estevan won bronze in the junior girls division of table tennis, with Bernadette Pangan placing seventh and Ruth Recson finishing eighth. In the team competition, the junior females finished fourth.
Seth Peters of Estevan was 11th in the cadet male division for table tennis.
The girls hockey team, which had significant content from the Power Tech midget AA Bearcats, took home a silver medal after dropping the gold medal game 3-1 to Team Prairie Central. The team included Bailey Farr, Megan Hayhurst, Kayla Wanner, Karleigh Mackenzie and Starla Mann from the Bearcats. In the round robin, they defeated Team Lakeland 12-2, Team Saskatoon 5-3 and Team Parkland Valley 8-3.
Their teammate with the Bearcats Karli Colpitts from Carlyle won weightlifting gold in the 75 KG female class with a clean and jerk of 71 kg and a snatch of 57, both tops in the class.
The boys hockey team, which had several players from the Estevan TS&M Bruins, placed fourth after dropping the bronze medal game 3-1 to Team Lakeland. Those plyers included forwards Kaden Chrest, Colby Cuddington, Mason Fichter, Mason Kukura, James Mann, defenceman Austin Davis, Alec Waldegger and Colby Durr and goaltender Jackson Miller.
They won 6-2 over Team Southwest, lost 6-0 to Team Saskatoon and tied Team Rivers West 2-2 in the round robin.
