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Weyburn Beavers outfielder Corey Wheaton safely got his hand on the bag at first base before the ball got to the first baseman, during the Beavers second-last regular season game on Friday evening at Tom Laing Park.

The regular season is over and the Saskota Baseball League is holding the Harbourne Cup tournament once again this weekend.

Not to sound like a broken record, but members of the Estevan Golden Eels Swim Club are breaking a few provincial records this year.

Kenmare, N.D.’s Riese Dignan has had a lot of success so far this season, on the Estevan Motor Speedway track and others this year.

Submitted by Karen Meagher A beautifully hot but not sweltering day on July 15 saw approximately 100 swimmers, their parents and others descending on Assiniboia to take part in the Assiniboia Aquarians annual invitational swim meet.

Weyburn basketball players Zach Olson and Jadon Cook have been busy playing on an elite hand-picked team called Doggpound, attending a number of tournaments through the summer.

A trio of losses over the last few days has sent the Southeast Performance Pump Twins to the lower division for midget baseball provincials.

The Estevan Drillers may have lost their final game of the senior baseball tournament they hosted on the weekend but it wasn’t because they ran out of willing arms in their bullpen.

There was a moment Saturday evening where the rain dripped on the Estevan either and Estevan Motor Speedway organizers were likely thinking ‘not again’.

In racing, it has been said no one remembers who finishes in second place, but it was a couple of second place finishes by Riese Dignan in the hobby stocks that led to him claiming the Border City Dirt Wars trophy for the weekend at the Estevan Motor