Local Sports

Weyburn Junior High student Natalie Hastings slides out of the hack to make a shot, as she practises her delivery during the school's weekly curling club, held after school every Wednesday at the Weyburn Curling Rink.

Brendon LaBatte and the Saskatchewan Roughriders lost their chance to face Calgary in the western final, after losing 18-10 to the Edmonton Eskimos in the western semifinal on Sunday.

Two season-long struggles reared their head again for the CanElson Drilling Estevan Bruins, as their lack of finish and shutdown play in their own end were major factors in a pair of weekend road losses.

The Estevan Bruins have traded their leading scorer in a deal completed late Monday night. The club has sent 19-year-old left winger Darcy DeRoose to the Kindersley Klippers for future considerations.

Martial artists from across Saskatchewan were showing off their skills on Saturday, as the Estevan Taekwon-do Club hosted their annual open invitational tournament. The event saw 134 competitors from 10 clubs throughout the province take part.

It was a weekend of mixed results for the Estevan PowerTech Panthers, as they won two games and lost one. The female midget AA team lost 5-3 to the Regina Capitals at Affinity Place on Friday.

It’s not quite the Brier or the Scotties, but the World Curling Tour’s Weatherford Curling Classic is set to return after 2013’s inaugural event. The tournament running from Nov. 28 to Dec.

Seven members of the Estevan Skating Club represented the city at the Skate Canada sectional competition in Melville last week. It was the largest contingent of skaters the club has sent in the last 10 years to compete at such a high level.

In a tight contest where the TS&M bantam AA Bruins traded goals with their opponent for much of the evening, a late score in the final minute of the third period wasn’t enough to propel the Bruins to victory.

Thank you to the Carlyle Elementary School for hosting the Elementary and High School Remembrance Day Service this year. Through song, art work, and tribute, the students were reminded of the important meaning of this special day. “Lest We Forget.