With the SHSAA winter sports schedule winding down, Yorkton and area high schools took to the sheets on February 8/9 to compete in the East Central District Curling Champ-ionships. Yorkton Regional and Sacred Heart joined the rest of the areas high schools with the reward of advancing to Provincial Regionals on the line. Two teams in each division advanced to the regionals, giving teams two opportunities to qualify for the following weekends tournament in Estevan.
Yorkton will send four teams to Estevan next weekend as the YRHS swept the mixed competition and Sacred earned "B" qualifiers in boys/girls to advance to Estevan, while Ezterhazy took the gold in bot boys and ladies play to snatch up the "A" qualifying spots and advance.
In mixed the YRHS teams led by skips Kassandra Kormos and Ryan Nagy gave the Raiders their two representatives at the regionals with steady play on the weekend, earning their way to extending their season. While Sacred required a must win "B" qualifier on Saturday in both ladies and boys play to make it to Estevan.
Skips Brenden Griffen for the boys and Kaylee Ford for the girls showed great leadership in guiding their squads through a must win situation to see themselves through, but will need even more leadership as the level of competition will get even stingier in Estevan as the best of the region come out to compete for a spot in the 2013 Curling Provincials.
Raiders coach Lana Stanek Sebastien commented that the ECDAA had a very strong group of curlers come out and play and that "Many games came down to the last rock, which is always exciting to watch.
The qualfying schools will head to Estevan this weekend with their eyes set on qualifying for provincials.
