Steven Mah

Four Southwest baseball teams were in action over the weekend at Baseball Sask Senior Provincials. The Gull Lake Greyhounds and Shaunavon Badgers were in Windhorst for the Senior AA Tier 5 Provincial championships and both advanced to the championship final. Gull Lake won the all-Southwest final 11-4 to clinch the provincial title. The Greyhounds opened the weekend with a 4-1 win...

Swift Current’s Shawn Maffenbeier clinched his first national title in Barrie, Ontario on Sunday. The MX101 FXR Yamaha Team rider won the MX2 class for the sixth time this season to win the season title. He had entered the final with an 11-point lead and started the day as the fastest qualifier and won the first moto for a 20-point...

Riley Campbell led off with a home run and the Swift Current 57’s never looked back in a 13-7 win over the visiting Edmonton Prospects in the opening game of the best-of-five Western Major Baseball League championship series Sunday. The 5’9’’, 175-pound Campbell hammered the fourth pitch from 6’3’’, 220-pound lefty Eric Sabrowski over the left field fence and then...

A pair to Swift Current wrestlers highlighted the final day of action for Southwest athletes at the Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg Friday. Aleah Nickel won silver in the 46 kg individual competition. Nickel, 15, lost the gold medal match against British Columbia's Victoria Seal, 16, on points. She had opened the day with a semi-final win by pinfall over...

The Swift Current 57’s scored twice in the eighth inning to slip past the Weyburn Beavers 6-4 in the fifth and deciding game of the Western Major Baseball League Eastern Division championship series Friday. The Beavers had won games one and two in Swift Current, before the defending champion 57’s won both games in Weyburn on Wednesday and Thursday to...

The Swift Current 57’s avoided playoff elimination for a second straight game, defeating the host Weyburn Beavers 11-1 to even the best-of-five Western Major Baseball League Eastern Division final at two games apiece. The 57’s scored at least a run in seven different innings to improve to 4-0 on the road in the post-season. The 57’s built up a 3-0...

All seven second-half athletes from the Southwest were in action at the 2017 Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg Thursday. Aleah Nickel won both her 56 kg round robin wrestling matches on Thursday to improve to 4-0 during the team event. She defeated Tanya Tugak in 56 seconds by pinfall as Saskatchewan defeated Nunavut 50-0. She also edged Sofia Santoro 10-8 in...

The City of Swift Current wishes to advise utility customers that we are aware of a telephone scam currently taking place in our community. “The scammers are falsely claiming to be representatives of the City, attempting to extract money from customers,” said the City’s CAO, Tim Marcus. “The callers are very aggressive, threatening immediate power cut-off if a credit card...

The Swift Current 57’s kept their season alive with a 6-5 comeback win over the host Weyburn Beavers. The 57’s trailed early but came back to get their first win in three attempts in the best-of-five Western Major Baseball League Eastern Division championship series. The Beavers got out to a 3-0 lead before Blake Adams took a bases loaded walk...

The wait was well worth it for two Swift Current wrestlers as they combined to finish 6-0 in their Canada Summer Games debuts Wednesday. Aleah Nickel won all three of her matches by pinfall to help Saskatchewan’s female team to a 3-0 record on the opening day of the team competition in Winnipeg. She pinned Hannah Risser in a 56 kg...