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A severely depleted Cougars squad limped into Wawota last Friday night with just over half of their team; they were down seven skaters due to a flu bug that swept through the locker room.

Forward and former Manor resident, Kruise Reddick, 24, will soon be playing Canada's national game in Spain, as he was chosen to join Team Canada's roster at the Winter Universiade in Granada, Spain, Feb. 3-14.

Wins over the Weyburn Eagles have been hard to come by in recent years for Estevan Comprehensive School's senior basketball teams. So when the boys did it, in the final of the Energy City Basketball Invitational no less, it was cause for celebration.

The Estevan Bruins were not busy at the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League trade deadline on Saturday, making one deal.

The TS&M Bruins got back on track with three wins on a busy weekend. The bantam AA club defeated the Regina Aces 8-5 on Friday in Regina, then beat the Moose Jaw Warriors 3-1 on Saturday and torched the Swift Current Raiders 9-2 on Sunday.

For the second time in the span of six days, the Kindersley Klippers blanked the CanElson Drilling Estevan Bruins 4-0. The second instance happened in Kindersley in Thursday.

The Southeast Legacy Twins have found their coaching staff for the 2015 season. Southeast Saskatchewan's midget AAA baseball team will be coached by Blaine Kovach and Kent Phillips.

The Estevan Apex Bruins lost both of their home games on the weekend. The midget AA team fell 5-2 to the Swift Current Hurricanes on Saturday, then 7-4 to the Ntore Dame bantam Hounds on Sunday.

It was a big weekend for the Estevan Westmoreland Bruins. The peewee AA team won both of their home games over the Melville Millionaires, defeating them 8-6 on Saturday and 8-4 on Sunday.

Rudi Swiegers of Kipling and Paige Lawrence of Kennedy, Canadian pair figure skaters and hometown heroes are pictured here at last year’s Kennedy skating carnival.