Steven Mah

The Swift Current 57’s fell 10-6 in extra innings to the visiting Yorkton Cardinals at Mitchell Field on Saturday to end their three-game winning streak. Ryne Niemi hit a grand slam for the Cardinals in the top of the 11th inning. It was a game of missed opportunities for the 57’s as they knocked out 18 hits but left 15...

A season that began in tragedy ended in triumph for the Vegas Golden Knights. Former Swift Current Broncos captain Cody Eakin was a key part of the historic expansion National Hockey League team that opened its season just days after the horrific shooting that left 58 dead and hundreds injured at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. The...

Southwest cowboys won four events at the Boomtown Days Stampede in Shaunavon. Six of the top eight entries in Team Roping had ties to the Southwest. Maple Creek’s Tanner Jones worked with Taylor Wudrich (Bow Island) to win in 6.5 seconds for $2,235. Swift Current’s Blaine Oddan and JC Davies placed third in 8.3 seconds for $1,652. Val Marie’s Riley...

The Swift Current 57’s held the visiting Yorkton Cardinals to four hits in an 11-5 win at Mitchell Field on Friday. The 57’s have now scored 27 runs over their past three games as they prepare to defend their two straight Western Major Baseball League championships in the post-season next week. Yorkton took a commanding lead in the second inning when...

With nothing left to prove in his hometown, Garret Glasrud is leaving his position of head coach with the Shaunavon Shadows football team to join an NCAA Division II football program. Glasrud, 31, will join the Western State Colorado University Mountaineers as their linebackers coach for the upcoming season. “It just was really random here. It just kind of fell into...

Three pitchers combined to shutout the Melville Millionaires as the Swift Current 57’s won 8-0 in their final road game of the Western Major Baseball League regular season on Thursday. Joey Machado struck out the side in the first inning and never looked back to get the win. He finished with 10 strikeouts over seven scoreless innings. Jack Ferguson and Aaron...

The Swift Current 57’s will be chasing provincial supremacy this weekend when they host the Baseball Sask 2018 Peewee AA Tier 1 Provincial Championships. The 57’s will be amongst eight teams competing at the three-day tournament. The 57’s will open the tournament on Friday at 3:30 p.m. against the Weyburn Beavers. They will also face Muenster Red Sox at 11:30 a.m. and...

The Swift Current 57’s got big nights from Ethan Hunter and Myles Miller and took advantage of five errors in an 8-7 win over the Melville Millionaires. The 57’s scored the opening six runs as Hunter finished with three hits and three runs scored and Miller contributed three hits and two runs batted in. The 57’s got out to a...

Swift Current’s Griffin Wilson continued to be amongst the leaders at a Maple League Junior Golf Tour stop at the Dakota Dunes Golf Links in Saskatoon on July 23-24. Wilson finished eight-over over two rounds at the par-72 course to place second behind Saskatoon’s Steven Duchscher (76-72-148). Wilson, 17, led the Junior Boys Division after one round with a two-over 74...

The Swift Current ACT/UCT Stingrays Summer Swim Club was at the South Semi-Final swim competition in Gravelbourg on Saturday. The top six finishers in each event advanced to Provincials, which will be this Saturday in Estevan. Leading the way was Talyah Cuthbert, who won all five of her races to place first overall in the Girls 7-8 division. Luke Nelson...