Sports This Week: Basketball, Badminton, Curling, Bowling
BASKETBALL
Junior basketball at Rosetown Central High School wrapped up last week.
The senior boys team placed third in their own tournament on Feb. 6-7 and the senior girls recently won the B side of another.
Both teams enter the season home stretch after this week’s break.
The junior boys team lost out in a district-qualifying tournament held in Kindersley on Feb. 7, said Royals coach Melanie Nattrass. Eston, Kindersley Composite and St. Gabriel schools and the host Blues were to play in district playoffs in Outlook this past week.
The junior girl Royals defeated the Kindersley Kobras 62-32 to win the consolation side of district playoffs here on Wednesday.
The Outlook Blues beat the Davidson Raiders 49-31 to win the district championship.
In preliminary games, the Raiders edged the Royals 51-50 and the Blues battered the Kobras 47-20.
Sydney Dessert scored 35 points and Gracie Rawson got another 11 to lead the Royals over the Kobras.
The senior boy Royals came from behind to edge the Shaunavon Shadows 53-51 in the game for third place at their own tournament held here on Feb. 6-7.
The Royals had fallen to the Falcons 62-54 on Saturday morning after defeating the Kindersley Kobras B team 51-41.
Mark Mofolasayo scored 21 points, Malcolm Ledding got nine and Harper Willis, seven to lead the Royals against Shaunavon.
Carson Smith scored 24 points and Briley Poololski had 12 for the Shadows.
Against Makwa, Mofolasayo got another 21, Luke Harrington scored 10 and Ledding and Willis each got eight points.
Dalton Pachapis scored 19 points and George Coullineur had 11 more for the Falcons.
Mofolasayo and Luke Harrington shared the scoring lead with 11 each against the Kobras. Ledding, Willis, Glen Matro Jr. and Aries Espino each got four.
Chase Herbert scored 13 for Kindersley.
“We saw a lot of development,” said head coach Ben Cressman. Some players got “a little more aggressive and playing fast . . . It was fun to see us compete for a whole game.”
While it was “a tough loss against Makwa, it was good to see them keep fighting until the end and win that last one against Shaunavon,” said Cressman.
In the second half, players started to figure out where they needed to be and keyed in on tendencies of some Shadows “who were pretty dominant,” he said.
The senior girl Royals won the B side of the Lloydminster Comprehensive tournament on Jan. 30-31, said coach Trinity Grant.
The Royals defeated Kindersley 37-18 in the B final. They came back from a 15-point deficit in the B semifinal against Onion Lake to win 40-39. They lost their first game of the tournament to Lillian Osbourne High School of Edmonton 68-37.
“The roads were poor on the way home on Saturday but we finished our last game at 3:30 p.m. so we were on the road at a good time,” said Grant.
BADMINTON
Badminton at Rosetown Central High School will start after the school break, said athletics director Mitchell Wintonyk.
HIGH SCHOOL CURLING
The Rosetown Central High junior girls team has been active.
The team won four-end games against Loreburn and Outlook teams in Outlook on Jan. 27. The other teams were “pretty young and inexperienced,” said Royals co-coach Darby Freistadt.
The team didn’t go to the Jan. 31 youth spiel in Outlook because of the freezing rain and icy highways then, said Freistadt.
The Royals hosted and defeated a team from Westcliffe Composite School of Marengo on Feb. 4 “but they were young and inexperienced as well,” he said.
They cancelled a game in Dinsmore last Wednesday because of one member also being in junior girls district basketball playoffs that day.
Their next action will be hosting a Kindersley team on Feb. 23 and then district playoffs in Kindersley on Feb. 27 and, if necessary, 28, said Freistadt.
BOWLING
Local teams were expected to bowl in the Fun Bowl and Rising Star provincial tournaments in Regina this past weekend.
Missed from the Feb. 10 sports column were one local team in the Masters - YBC provincial tournament held in Regina on Feb. 1.
The team of junior youth bowlers Josh Heimbecker and Lucy Still and master bowler Brian Andersen won silver medals. Josh had the the best pins over average of any junior bowler: plus 376. He also bowled one personal best game, 329, and then topped it with a 330, said Penny Andersen from the local alley.