Steven Mah

The Swift Current Midget AAA 57's won once in four Saskatchewan Premier Midget AAA Baseball League games over the weekend. Saturday, the 57’s split a pair of road games against the Muenster Red Sox. A pair of six-run innings were impossible to overcome in a 15-12 loss in game one. The 57’s knocked out 12 hits, but made three errors in...

Larry Johnson is generally a pleasant man, but the smile that stretched across his face on July 7 was difficult to escape. The longtime player, coach, and dedicated volunteer to hockey in Swift Current was inducted into the Saskatchewan Hockey Hall of Fame that evening after a lifetime committed to that game that he loved. “This is tremendous to be inducted...

The Swift Current 57’s losing streak stretched to five games at the hands of the Western Major Baseball League leading Medicine Hat Mavericks on Sunday. Medicine Hat scored in five of their eight innings, swatting out 19 hits on their way to a 14-5 win in front of 874 fans at Athletic Park. Blake Adams led the 57’s with a home...

The Swift Current Sonic just missed the playoffs when they hosted the 2018 Softball Saskatchewan U14 C Girls Provincial Championships over the weekend. The Sonic won two of three games, but placed third in their pool in a three-way tie at 2-1. They won their opener 12-1 over the Shellbrook Parkland Predators on Friday. They added a 15-14 win over the Kindersley...

The Swift Current 57’s offensive woes continued in a 6-1 loss to the visiting Weyburn Beavers on Friday. The 57’s were limited to just four hits, while the Beavers crushed three home runs to improve to 22-7 on the season. Lefty Landon Mostellar improved to 2-1 as he held the 57’s to four hits, three walks, and one run while striking...

For over 50 years Dennis Loeppky was a fixture at Swift Current Broncos games at the Innovation Credit Union iplex. It is only fitting that he will now be honoured in two different hall of fames in the same building, after he is inducted into the Saskatchewan Hockey Hall of Fame on Saturday. “It’s pretty heart-warming I guess,” said Loeppky’s...

The Swift Current Sonic will be one of 12 teams competing at the 2018 Softball Saskatchewan U14 ‘C’ Girls Provincial Championship in Swift Current this weekend. The Sonic will be joined at Provincials by teams from Redvers, Kindersley, Shellbrook, Leader, Macklin, Melville, Kipling, Estevan, Southey, Turtleford, and Hague Valley. The Sonic will open the tournament on Friday at 6:30 p.m. against...

Southwest cowboys win four of eight events at the Frontier Days Rodeo in Swift Current on June 29-July 30. Swift Current’s Jeremy Dillon led four Southwest cowboys in the money in Saddle Bronc. He won the event with a 76-point ride on Law & Order for $913. Maple Creek’s Adam Gilchrist was just one point behind with 75 points on...

A three-run seventh inning was the difference as the visiting Moose Jaw Miller Express handed the Swift Current 57’s a third straight loss on Thursday. Ty Roseberry hit a three-run home run to lift the Miller Express (15-12) to a 7-4 win to move two games ahead of the 57’s (14-15). The 57’s were held to five hits in the loss....

Swift Current’s Aleah Nickel lost her opening match at the 2018 Cadet World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia. She lost by fall in the opening round to Mongolia’s Oyungerel Batkhuyag. Nickel, 17, is one of 23 wrestlers in the women’s 61 kilogram division. She was eliminated when Batkhuyag lost to Japan’s Riko Takayama in the quarter-final.