Local Sports

The 2013 Opportunity Road Race was held on August 18, raising a total of $4,768 for the Weyburn and District Hospital Foundation and $941 for the Weyburn Comprehensive School's SRC.

The Prestige Fight Club of Regina will be presenting a live MMA event at Crescent Point Place on September 28. The card for 'Fallout' includes four of Weyburn's local adult fighters, Dean Hodgkin, Clint Mohan, Andris Baltgalvis and Clayton Schira.

The Carlyle Golf Club was busy on Aug. 13 and 14 with tournament action held both days. The fairway was groomed and the greens closely tended to, making for two beautiful days of golfing action as there was little wind and sunshine was plentiful.

A pair of local products were among the more than 450 athletes, coaches and staff representing Saskatchewan at the Canada Games this month in Sherbrooke, Que.

Tristan Snider is silhouetted in the sunset, while he performs BMX tricks at the skate park on Thursday night, as Dane Colbow also performs tricks on a secondary ramp.

It has been a long two years, but in 2013, Estevan will once again kick off its minor football season at the Dana Quewezance Memorial Field. To celebrate, Estevan Minor Football is hosting a Football Day in Estevan on Aug.

For the second straight year, the Estevan Comprehensive School Elecs football team is having trouble filling out its roster as the season draws near.

In their season opener on Sunday, the Estevan Sherritt Coal Miners showed some chops defensively but found out they have some work to do on the offensive side of the ball.

With a motto of "We will not fail,"a group of Estevanites is forming a bid they hope will grant the Energy City the chance to host the 2016 Saskatchewan Summer Games.

They lost arguably their best player on their first play of the game, and it didn't get any better from there for the Estevan Lions Club Steelers on Monday night.