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The Bienfait Coalers needed overtime to get the job done in the first game of their semifinal series against the Redvers Rockets. The first-place Coalers edged sixth-place Redvers 4-3 in extra time on Friday in Bienfait to take a 1-0 series lead.

Graham DeLaet tied for ninth at the Honda Class last week, after having two really good rounds and two difficult rounds at the Palm Beach Course in Florida. DeLaet, a former Weyburn athlete, is now ranked 50th on the FedExCup.

The playoffs are a brand new season in hockey and the CanElson Drilling Estevan Bruins drove that point home on Saturday and Sunday.

Clubs from Estevan and Lampman combined to bring home 49 medals from the Global TaeKwon-Do Martial Arts provincials in Saskatoon on Saturday. The two clubs sent 39 competitors, including 33 from Estevan, to the event.

It was right there for the taking. The Estevan Bruins generated all kinds of scoring chances, but they failed to capitalize, made a few mistakes, and at the end of the night the scoreboard read 3-1 for the Kindersley Klippers.

Six men were forever cemented in the history books of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League on Friday night as the newest inductees of the SJHL Hall of Fame.

A few members of the Estevan Mermaids synchronized swimming club participated in the Sandy Roberts National Stream Provincials in Saskatoon on the weekend.

Considering how bad the Estevan Bruins were on the road this season, not many people would have expected them to storm into Kindersley this weekend and take both games. But that's exactly what they did.

On February 20, the Weyburn Qmax Wild played Radville in their last regular league game for the 2012/2013 season. After two periods of play the score was locked at 0-0. In the third period, Radville scored two goals to defeat Weyburn 2-0.