Local Sports

Estevan’s Brayden Pachal has signed a professional contract.

Estevan area school students participated in a cross-country meet Thursday afternoon at Torgeson Park. The young people were divided into different divisions based on their grade and gender, and then raced throughout the park.

A fall training camp for wrestlers will be hosted by the Weyburn Wrestling Club, featuring Canadian gold medalist Erica Wiebe on the weekend of Sept. 28-29, along with a visit to a school.

The Richardson Pioneer Weyburn Red Wings played their first road game of the season and the outcome was less than ideal.

Many of the top young golfers in southeast Saskatchewan were at the TS&M Woodlawn Golf Course on Tuesday for the Southeast District Athletics Association’s golf championship. Thirty-eight boys and five girls competed.

For the second straight week, the Estevan Comprehensive School (ECS) Elecs football team came out with a strong effort, but were just a little bit short. ECS lost 34-26 to the host Weyburn Comprehensive School Eagles on Friday night in Weyburn.

The Estevan Century 21 U12 Chargers football team has had a familiar refrain for its games this season: fall behind early, and then show resiliency by having a late game rally, only to come up just short.

Eddie Gallagher scored the winning goal with 2:24 to play in the third period, and Jayden Davis added the insurance goal with 40 seconds to play to lift the Estevan Bruins to a 4-2 victory over the Yorkton Terriers Tuesday night at Affinity Place.

Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League president Bill Chow, left, presented Turner Ripplinger with the 2018-19 Viterra Division championship banner prior to the start of Tuesday night’s Estevan Bruins hockey game at Affinity Place.

The WCS Junior A and B girls teams competed in a home tournament on Friday and Saturday, and the Jr. A girls advanced to the finals. The Junior A team finished second in their pool with a record of 6-2.