Local Sports

For the past 20 years the Wawota Lions have been hosting a Farmers and Ranchers Golf Tournament at Golf Kenosee.

Mike Hoffman, the chair for the Weyburn and District Hospital Foundation, checks in with Brendon LaBatte, who was the featured local celebrity at the annual charity golf tournament on Thursday.

Football is a sport in Saskatchewan that many people enjoy. The Roughriders have helped to give young players something to aspire to, while the CFL and NFL at large entice many youth into wanting to play.

The Southeast Legacy Twins picked up their fifth win of the year in dramatic fashion on Saturday.

Ruby and Graham DeLaet arrive in Saskatoon for the inaugural "Graham Slam", which was held July 8 and 9 at the Riverside Country Club. The event was the first official fundraiser for the Graham and Ruby DeLaet Foundation.

The Estevan Bruins have built a core of young, talented players, and they expect that group to take a big step forward next year. That's one reason why the Bruins have adopted the slogan The Future Is Here for the 2014-15 SJHL season.

Team ropers Kavis Drake and Conner Box chase a calf together, with one roper going for the head and the other for the heels, at the Kids Rodeo on Wednesday held at the Weyburn Ag Society's rodeo arena.

The Weyburn Beavers claimed important wins over the Melville Millionaires and the Yorkton Cardinals during road games on Sunday, which vaulted them into second place in the east division of the Western Major Baseball League.

After winning the first two nights of the 25th annual Dakota Classic Modified Tour, Jeff Taylor just needed to be consistent the rest of the way. He was, and on Friday night in Jamestown, Taylor raised the championship trophy for the first time.

A former local cowboy and rodeo bull rider, Bob Robertson, will be honoured with an award at the Souris River Rodeo coming up in Weyburn on the weekend of July 18-20, and later this year will be inducted into the Canadian Pro Rodeo Association's Cowb