Local Sports

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

Members of the Estevan Golden Eels travelled to Gravelbourg for the Southern Saskatchewan Speed Swimming Semifinal on Saturday.

Estevan’s Jeremy Swanson went from rolling his vehicle over in turn two at the Estevan Motor Speedway at the end of the street stock car feature race to winning the special DARN-TV Dirt Kings shootout race in a very short period of time.

Last season’s captain of the Power Dodge Estevan Bruins is moving east this fall. Jake Fletcher has committed to the Concordia Stingers to play USports men’s hockey next season.