Local Sports

The Estevan TS&M Bruins had a pair of players drafted into the Western Hockey League’s bantam draft last week.

Fishing season opened in southeast Saskatchewan on Saturday, and the Estevan Wildlife Federation kicked it off with its annual Walleye Classic on Boundary Dam. A large contingent of teams entered this year's derby, which is a catch-and-release event.

Weyburn player Autumn Vilcu laid the ball up for a basket during a round-robin game versus Southey, at the Steve Nash youth basketball tournament on Saturday at the Eagle gym.

The first race event this year at the Estevan Motor Speedway is in the books and some old favourites took the checkered flag.

A player for the Weyburn Thrashers peewee-2 team ran with the ball with a Moose Jaw Mustangs player in hot pursuit, during a game for the South Sask Lacrosse League on Thursday evening at Crescent Point Place.

Several Estevan taekwondo athletes had a very successful weekend in Saskatoon at the GTMA Provincial tournament last weekend. Competing with 110 fellow athletes from Saskatoon, Lampman, Biggar, Prince Albert, Osler and Camrose, Alta.

The ten teams in the Saskota Baseball League will be hitting the diamonds soon for the annual senior baseball season. The league has set May 15 as their opening date.

The first of the ticket packages have been made available for curling’s Home Hardware Canada Cup, which will be held Dec. 5-9 at Affinity Place.

And then there were ten. The Big Six Hockey League will be getting a little bigger in the 2018-19 senior hockey season as the Kipling/Windthorst Oil Kings have jumped into the league from the Highway Hockey League.

It’s been a few years since the Estevan Big Dogs were able to eat at the Prairie Gold Lacrosse League table but not that they’re there, they have no intentions of leaving the Saskatchewan junior B league again.