Local Sports

It’s an announcement that will provide a reason to celebrate, not just for the Estevan Bruins, but for the community as a whole. The 2022 Centennial Cup, presented by Tim Hortons, is coming to the Energy City.

For the first time in franchise history, the Estevan Bruins will be hosting the Centennial Cup national junior A hockey championship.

The Carlyle Novice Cougars (Chris) stormed into their home tournament on Dec 7-8 and came out with the A side Championship. The whole team played like a well oiled machine.

With three games to report on, the Cougars would like to erase the first one from their memory. It was a great game on Nov. 16, when the Cougars headed to Carnduff to take on the Red Devils.

The City of Estevan and the Estevan Bruins have called a press conference for Thursday morning at 11:30 a.m. at Affinity Place. No other details were announced by either side. The Mercury will have more details as they become available.

The Midget AA John Hulbert Construction Wings are hoping that hockey fans of all ages will “Pack the Rink” on Sunday, Dec. 15, in support of their teammate, No. 7, Cooper Walbaum.

For the first time in years, the Estevan Minor Hockey Association hosted a midget tournament for house league teams, and used it to remember a dedicated local hockey player.

The Estevan Comprehensive School (ECS) Elecs senior girls basketball team finished second at the Notre Dame Tournament in Wilcox on the weekend.

A talented young golfer from Estevan has committed to play collegiate golf in the U.S. Chase Gedak announced Monday via Twitter that he had committed to play for the University of Arkansas-Monticello, starting in the fall of 2020.

The water polo winter provincials tournament was held this past weekend in Saskatoon, and the Estevan Sharks sent two atom and two bantam teams to the competition. They also had several athletes playing on teams in the open men and open women events.