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  Submitted by Deb Reamer Senior badminton playoffs have started with the section playoffs being held on Saturday, April 21. Thank you to Hazlet (commissioner Wade Caswell), Swift Current Comp. (commissioner Eric Crosbie from Gull Lake) and Eastend (commissioners Shelley Morvik and Randy Johnson) for hosting our senior section badminton. We appreciate your time and effort! The following are the teams...

"I don't even know. I kind of blacked out." Giorgio Estephan completed his hat trick midway through the first overtime period to lead the Swift Current Broncos 4-3 win and a 2-0 series lead in the Western Hockey League Eastern Conference championship series. But he couldn't even explain whether the puck was on the ice or in the air when...

Swift Current Broncos import forward Aleksi Heponiemi picked an opportune time to score his first Western Hockey League playoff goal. The splendid assist man scored with 8:49 remaining in his 29th career playoff game to lift the Broncos to a 3-2 win over the visiting Lethbridge Hurricanes to open the Western Hockey League Eastern Conference championship series after the...

The Saskatchewan Hockey Association announced three rosters for their SaskFirst High Performance Program last week and some Southwest skaters remain in the running. Two members of the Swift Current Diamond Energy Female Midget AAA Wildcats remain with the 20-player SaskFirst Female U16 program. Assiniboia’s Amaya Giraudier is one of two goaltenders on the squad. Giraudier had an outstanding rookie campaign...

The Swift Current Broncos left nothing to chance in game seven of the Eastern Conference best-of-seven semi-final series with a convincing 6-0 win over the host Warriors on Monday. Two days after a triple overtime loss in Swift Current, captain Glenn Gawdin led the Broncos with two goals and two assists and Stuart Skinner made 25 saves for his fourth...

The Leader Saints won two of the five titles at a nine-team badminton tournament hosted by the Swift Current Comp. Colts and Ardens on Saturday. Leader’s Carson Leach and Jordan Mastel won all seven matches to top the 11-team boys doubles field. They finished 5-0 in the round robin and then defeated a Swift Current duo in the semi-final. Leach...

The Swift Current Diamond Energy Female Midget AAA Wildcats were searching for help on the blueline during their annual spring camp at the Innovation Credit Union iplex over the weekend. The Wildcats split their camp into two portions, with a prospects camp included for potential players. “Overall we’re happy,” said Wildcats longtime head coach Terry Pavely. “We’ve got good numbers. Three...

The Swift Current 16U Female Black Junior SunDogs won 12 straight sets to bring home gold from a tournament in Regina over the weekend. The SunDogs, coached by Shawn Hiebert, Travis Kelln, and Darren Lehman, held four opponents to less than 20 points over eight sets on Saturday. They defeated Nipawin’s JBH Strikers (25-19, 25-6), Arcola’s SE Vipers (25-16, 25-15),...

2018 will be a year to remember for Aleah Nickel. In the last month and a half the Swift Current native has won her first high school provincial title, a Saskatchewan Amateur Wrestling Association provincial championship, and most recently a national title and a Cadet Championship. “I was super ecstatic,” said Nickel of winning Nationals in Edmonton on Saturday. “It...

The Swift Current Broncos played an exceptional hockey game for over 100 minutes but lost 3-2 in triple overtime to the visiting Moose Jaw Warriors on Saturday. The Warriors tied the best-of-seven Eastern Conference semi-final at three games apiece to force a seventh and deciding game back in Moose Jaw. The Broncos led 2-0 in the third period before Moose...