Steven Mah

South West Athletic Conference athletes won a total of six medals, including two gold medals, at the SHSAA Track and Field Provincial Championships in Prince Albert on Friday. The Swift Current Comp. Colts swept the top two spots in the Midget Boys Long Jump. Tyson Coward won gold with a 5.82 meter jump. Teammate Rhett Vavra won silver when he...

Swift Current’s Cash Arntsen may have been passed over in the Western Hockey League Draft, but he was the first overall selection in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League Bantam Draft today. The rugged forward was chosen first overall by the La Ronge Ice Wolves, who are coached by Swift Current’s Evan Vossen. Arntsen tied for the team lead with 54...

The Swift Current 57’s made a few too many mistakes in a 4-3 loss to the visiting Weyburn Beavers to open the 2018 Western Major Baseball League regular season on Thursday. The two-time defending league champions made three errors that led to two unearned runs in the season-opening loss in front of 340 fans at Mitchell Field. Soft-tossing Cam Williams got...

Last summer right-handed pitcher Aaron Pugh was hurling fastballs at opponents sometimes nearly three times his age. This summer he will be face an entirely different level of competition in a respected wood bat collegiate league when he takes the mound for the Swift Current 57’s in the Western Major Baseball League. The Boissevain, MB native recently completed his sophomore...

Dauson Tate simply looks and talks like a baseball player. The Pueblo West, Colorado product was amongst the first members of the Swift Current 57’s to arrive in Swift Current and is eagerly anticipating the opportunity to play under the lights of Mitchell Field and help the 57’s chase a third straight Western Major Baseball League title. He has played...

The two-time defending league champion Swift Current 57’s will get their season underway Thursday when they host the Weyburn Beavers at 7:05 p.m. at Mitchell Field. The 57’s will jump right into their Western Major Baseball League regular season schedule with six games in the first seven days of the season. They also visit the Moose Jaw Miller Express on...

Three Swift Current 57’s AAA teams were in action this past weekend as another busy home weekend approaches. The Mosquito AAA 57’s were in Lloydminster for a tournament and won four of six games to win the B-side championship. They defeated the Yorkton Cardinals 10-8 and then downed the Edmonton Padres Blue 12-4 on Saturday. They wrapped up the day with...

Having won gold at almost every level of wrestling in Canada imaginable this year, Aleah Nickel headed overseas for another challenge and will be returning with even more hardware. The Swift Current native won silver in the 61 kg division at the Pan-American Championships in Guatemala City on Saturday. Nickel had two matches in the Cadet Pan-American Championships. She defeated Mexico’s...

Expect to see Cody Coverchuk back in Swift Current next season. The Meadow Lake native won for a second time at the 8th annual Cody Snyder Invitational PBR on Saturday. “It feels good,” said Coverchuk. “Recently it hasn’t been going that great, so to come into a big PBR like this and get the win feels good for sure.” Coverchuk rode...

There have been rumours for months now, but the Swift Current Broncos made it official on Friday that Head Coach and Director of Player Personnel Manny Viveiros will be leaving the team. Just two days after the Broncos were eliminated from the 2018 Mastercard Memorial Cup in Regina, the Broncos held a press conference to announce that Viveiros would be...