Steven Mah

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...

Five Southwest athletes were in action at the 2017 Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg Tuesday, including the debut of two swimmers. Gull Lake’s Jenae Ruetz opened her Summer Games with two swims on Tuesday.Ruetz finished eighth in her heat in the Special Olympics Female 100 Metre Freestyle in 2:07.63 on Tuesday. She also swam in the 50 Metre Breaststroke but was...

The Swift Current 57’s find themselves in a major hole after being shutout 6-0 Tuesday to fall behind two games to none in the best-of-five Western Major Baseball League Eastern Division championship series to the Weyburn Beavers. Weyburn combined five hits and two errors to score five runs in the second inning as they improved to 8-2 against the 57’s...

A Swift Current team won four straight playoff games to win a national title at the Mens D Molson Slo-Pitch National Championships in Winnipeg. The Prides Thunder won seven of eight games at nationals, culminating with a 25-17 win over Abbotsford’s Legends in the gold medal game Monday. They had finished 3-1 in the round robin with wins over Showtime (MB),...