Local Sports

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

Pam Scott, a roller derby enthusiast on Weyburn's Strait Jackettes team, stands with her uncle Bob Robertson, who was born in Weyburn and raised in Yellow Grass, and is to be inducted to the Canadian Pro Rodeo Association Cowboy Hall of Fame.

Rider Mackenzie Shauf rounds the end of the line of six poles, as she makes her way through the poles event in the 7-10 year old age category at the Kids Rodeo held Wednesday evening at the Weyburn Ag Society's rodeo arena.

Two Weyburn athletes are representing Canada this week at the 2014 UANA Junior Pan American Water Polo Championships. Kelsey Jensen and Taylor Molde have been selected to play for Team Canada at the championships being held in Riverside, California.

Last weekend 26 Saskatchewan women gathered in Moose Mountain Provincial Park at Golf Kenosee where they competed in the Amateur Women's and Senior Women's Provincial Championships.