Sports This Week: Basketball wins, bowling berths: Royals make their mark
Basketball
The Rosetown Central High senior girls basketball team, who host their own tournament this weekend, won a tournament in Biggar on Nov. 28-29. The Kindersley Kobras, Kerrobert Rebels, and host Blazers also competed. Details weren’t available.
The Royals were to play in a tournament in Kerrobert this past weekend. They have a tournament in Wilkie on Jan. 9-10, host the Blazers on Jan. 14, go to a tournament at LCBI in Outlook on Jan. 16-17, play a game in Kindersley on Jan. 21, and go to a tournament at Lloydminster Comprehensive on Jan. 30-31.
The Royals host the Kobras on Jan. 4, go to Assiniboia for a Feb. 27-28 tournament, play in Biggar on March 4, and a tournament in Unity on March 6-7. Conference playoffs are on March 14 at a location to be determined. Regional playoffs are on March 20-21, and Hoopla is on March 27-28.
This season’s Royals consist of five Grade 12 players — Ella Kadler, Brenna Zummack, Rayna James, Isabelle Sparks, and Angel Matro; three in Grade 11 — Jocelyn Ngo-Siemens, Willemina Heinrichs, and Evolet Welter; three in Grade 10 — Madison Cordes, Collins Legge, and Tess Kelly; and Grade 9 player Sydney Dessert.
Their senior boy counterparts won the consolation final of a tournament in Kindersley on Nov. 28-29. The Royals lost their first game 106-40 to the Lloydminster Comp. B team. They then beat the host Kobra B team 61-37 and defeated the Delisle Rebels 49-42 in the consolation final, said co-coach Ben Cressman.
The Royals also played in Delisle last Tuesday but lost 42-41, said co-coach Mitchell Wintonyk. Wyatt Perry and Mark Mofolasayo each scored 10 points.
The team has six Grade 12 players — Perry, Gerald Bonyai, Luke Harrington, Malcolm Ledding, Alex Nickel, and Corbin Wiens; only two in Grade 11 — Vince Marty and Ishaq Reid; and nine in Grade 10 — Mofolasayo, E. J. Claveria, Klaas Woudwijk, Aries Espino, Sam Cadieux, Harper Willis, Jaevin Nedjelski, Glen Matro, and Yosef Nasibog.
The Royals are entirely from Rosetown Central High. The co-op agreement ran out last season and wasn’t renewed. All Saskatchewan High School Athletic Association joint sponsorships are three-year agreements. When an agreement ends, it can be renewed or left to expire, said Wintonyk.
Bowling
Josh Heimbecker and Lucy Still have made the Zone 7 bowling team for the Saskatchewan Winter Games. Jennifer Heimbecker will coach the five-member team, said Penny Andersen from the local alley.
They qualified at trials in Lloydminster on Nov. 30. Josh just made the team by one pin, said Andersen.
The bowling portion of the games will be held over three days in February in Meadow Lake, she said.
Five men and four women were expected to compete in the zone round of the Fun Bowl tournament in Biggar last Saturday. The zone round for its companion tournament, the Rising Star, is to be played in Rosetown this Saturday, starting at 11 a.m.
The provincial rounds for those tournaments will be held on Feb. 14-15 in Regina. There isn’t a tournament in Rosetown over the holidays, but a singles fun tournament is scheduled for Jan. 3.