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Darren Abel was presented with the Murray Sawa Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions to the development of football in Saskatchewan.

The Carlyle Skating Club hosted their annual skating carnival on Sunday, March 22.

The Arcola/Lampman Imperial Combines Bantam team have had great success this year and are seeing this correspond to their playoff run within the Moose Mountain Minor Hockey League.

Kelly Currie (right) presents Shelley Sargent with a cheque of $2,391 for Carlyle - KidSport from the Carlyle Cougars senior men’s hockey team.

The Flyers lost 3-1 in game four. The current series has Bienfait ahead three games to one. Game 5 was played on Wednesday, March 25, with Bienfait earning the Big Six Champion title winning the final game 6-2.

The Southeast Saskatchewan Vipers 18U team participated in Sask Cup 3 on the weekend of March 21 and 22 in Saskatoon. The girls took on Nipawin in their first game of the round robin, which they were able to win.

Manor native Kruise Reddick's hockey career continues to go from strength to strength, as the 24-year-old University of Alberta Golden Bears' team captain and forward scored the winning goal to capture the Canadian Interuniversity Sport's (CIS) Unive

The Estevan Power Dodge peewee A Vipers defeated the Saskatoon Comet Fury 8-3 in the Saskatchewan Hockey Association (SHA) female provincial playoff final, at the Civic Auditorium on March 22, to become provincial champions.

The Estevan Blue Rock junior midget Bruins recently gained the edge in their best-of- three final against Weyburn, when they beat them 10-6 at Affinity place on March 22. It wasn’t easy for the Bruins to advance to final.

Chaelynn Kitz, Angela Hookenson, Taylor Marcotte and Halynne Lamontagne finished fourth at the 2015 Ramada Juvenile Provincial Curling Championships in Nipawin. They competed in the girls’ 17-and-under division.