Southwest Booster Staff

Swift Current Christian Taekwondo promoted five students as new black belts on May 13 after hundreds of hours of training and dedication to achieve their respective milestones. The term “Dan” is commonly used in Korean martial arts to denote a black belt. Literally, the word translates as “level” or “stage”. The highest belt level...

The Swift Current U15 Sonic won four straight games to claim the title at the Unity U15 Tournament. The Sonic took one on the chin to start the tournament on Friday night as they faced the Twin City Angels (Warman/Martensville). The Angels defeated the Sonic 17-1 in four innings to start the tournament. Bree...

The CMX Powersports moto cross team finished up the third round of the provincial race circuit on Sunday in Weyburn. Rider Luke Hodgins had an overall excellent day. Luke place first overall in the MX1 class, fifth in the Junior MX2, and sixth in Junior MX3. Trehvan McMorris also had an excellent day placing...

It was an exciting weekend at the Swift Current Motocross track on this past weekend.  The CMX Powersports riders put on a great showing at the provincial SMA races on Sunday. The track was excellent and the riders all did well.  CMX rider Trehvan McMorris placed first in all four motos to bring home...

SHSAA BADMINTON PROVINCIALS The Maple Creek duo of Khali and Kahlen Delorme took part in the SHSAA Provincial Badminton Championship in Unity on Saturday. The top eight girls doubles teams in the province were vying for the provincial title. The girls had a record of 1-2 after pool play and didn’t...

SENIOR BADMINTON SHSAA regional finals were in Regina on May 6 and SWAC sent a full contingent of competitors to this championship. Athletes from SWAC, South Central, West Central and Regina competed. Each classification had two pools of four. Athletes had to place in the top two to make it into the playoff rounds.

SENIOR BADMINTON Thanks to Maple Creek High School and Sydney Street School for being the host site for our senior SWAC badminton playoffs (commissioners Curtise Clement/Shawn Buss).  Special thanks to Trish Carleton for running the score table at Sydney Street for the day. The top two teams in each category will...

SWAC sports playoffs are back with our last two activities of the year - badminton and track and field. SENIOR BADMINTON SECTIONALS Fox Valley, Val Marie (in Shaunavon) and Ponteix were the host commissioners for the senior sectional badminton playoffs. The top four athletes in each category advance to SWAC Districts...

SWIFT CURRENT – As of 10 a.m. today, the City of Swift Current lifted the State of Emergency that had been enacted on April 11, in response to this year’s spring flooding. For the past few days, the City of Swift Current and the Water Security Agency have been closely monitoring the latest weather...

The Water Security Agency (WSA) is pointing to a tapered off flooding risk in the Swift Current Creek in their most recent spring runoff update. Information released by the Water Security Agency this afternoon (April 18) noted that current flows in the creek are down to 20 metres cubed per second, down from last...