Southwest Booster Staff

Most of our senior basketball league games wrapped up last week. Maple Creek boys beat Gull Lake (57-52). Swift Current boys defeated Vanguard (75-20) and Frontier boys lost to Shaunavon (69-61). The Maple Creek girls lost to Swift Current (55-26) and Shaunavon girls won over Herbert (59-39).  Top boy scorers in last week’s games - Gull...

The Cypress Motors/Subway (Rumpel) and RBC Dominion Securities (Haichert) rinks now lead the Swift Current Curling Club - Innovation Credit Union Super League after two weeks with 2-0 records. February 6 results: Quintin defeated Therrien Construction (Dixon); Cypress Motors/Subway (Rumpel) defeated B&A Petroleum/Nitro Millwright (Seidler); ACT Sliders (Cornelson) defeated ACT Sliders (Chambers); RBC Dominion Securities...

Now that exam week is done, there is one set of regularly scheduled senior basketball league games left before playoffs. The standings have not changed since before exams.  On February 4, Gull Lake boys and Swift Current girls are in Maple Creek. Swift Current boys will be in Vanguard and Shaunavon boys in Frontier. Shaunavon girls will travel to Maple Creek. There...

In the afternoon of January 28, 2020, an off-duty RCMP officer spotted three vehicles driving at a high rate of speed east on Highway 1 towards Swift Current, SK. The three vehicles appeared to be travelling together as they were driving in close proximity, in the same direction and at the same high rate of speed. Swift...

The 15U Yellow Female Junior SunDogs volleyball team finished with a 4-4 match record at Sask Cup #1 in Saskatoon over the weekend. The 15U SunDogs, coached by Hayley German, finished with a 1-4 record on Saturday, including a trio of three-set matches to conclude the day. They lost their opening matches to the...

It was a successful opening day for Cabri’s Shaun Meachem at the 2020 SaskTel Tankard Men’s Provincial in Melville on Wednesday. The Meachem rink defeated Regina’s Samuel Wills 7-1 in eight ends to open the provincial championship. Meachem will face Langenburg’s Kody Hartung on Thursday morning.

The Prairie Athletic Conference Basketball Schedule got underway with a big opening matchup as the Millar Edge hosted the Briercrest Clippers on Wednesday. The women’s game started things off with a furious pace as both teams worked to slow things down and get into a good rhythm. The Clippers owned...

The 16U Female Junior SunDogs volleyball team won their first five matches to place fourth out of 36 teams at Sask Cup 1 in Warman over the weekend. The SunDogs, coached by Chris Grainger and Brad Gross, won all four of their matches on Saturday as they defeated Lloydminster Rustlers White (25-12, 25-14), the Biggar Impact (25-17,...

The RBC Dominion Securities rink closed out a Swift Current Curling Club – Innovation Credit Union Super League championship on Thursday. RBC Dominion Securities defeated Westax to finish the season with a 9-2 record atop the 12-team league. January 23 results were as follows: Chambers defeated Kruse Glass & Aluminum;...

The recently commissioned Chinook Power Plant is one of the reasons SaskEnergy recorded a trio of new natural gas usage records this week. With Saskatchewan plunged into extreme cold temperatures with windchill values approaching -50 Celsius, natural gas consumption has eclipsed the former record mark of 1.50 PetaJoules (PJ) on a trio of occasions.