Sports This Week: Redwings, darts and Royals highlight a busy week in local sports
The under-18 Redwings play the Tisdale Ramblers this week in the first round of U-18 provincial C playoffs, in Tisdale on Feb. 13 and here on the 14th and, as with all provincial minor hockey playoffs, if necessary, a mini game right after the second game.
The under-15 Redwings had a win under their belts when they headed to Wynyard last Friday to play the hometown Monarchs in their U-15 provincial B first-round series.
The Redwings had won 5-3 here on Jan. 31.
Cohen Wickett, Will Speir, Jasper Adnam and Dmytro Nikolaienko each had a goal and an assist. Kutter Kampen also scored.
Jones Maxemniuk made 30 saves in the Redwing net.
Cass McConnell, Ty Hague and Max Boylak scored Monarch goals.
Damon Purdue made 16 saves for Wynyard.
Pool
The Rosetown Legion branch will host the provincial pool tournament on April 17-18.
The tournament will run all day Saturday and part of Sunday, said branch president Aaron Walker. A local team is expected to compete, said Walker.
Darts
Before that happens, the branch darts club will host its annual Spring Shoot on March 7.
Austin Morrison, his grandmother, Gloria Morrison, and Wellesley Dashney, a local member from Kyle, will attend the Saskatchewan Darts Association provincial championships in Saskatoon on March 14-15, he said.
Walker, Dashney, Austin Morrison and Keane Sutherland will compete in the Legion provincial darts championships in Hudson Bay on March 28, said Walker.
Walker, Austin Morrison and Dashney played in the Al Heminger Memorial Tournament in Saskatoon on Jan. 3. Morrison finished joint fifth in singles. He and Walker also placed joint fifth in doubles, he said.
Basketball
The Rosetown Central High senior boys team won the first game of their own tournament here this past weekend.
The Royals defeated the Kindersley Kobra B team 51-41 in Friday action. Mark Mofolasayo and Luke Harrington shared the Royals’ scoring lead with 11 points each. Kobra scoring details weren’t available at press time.
The Shaunavon Shadows edged the Westcliffe-Eaton Spartans 79-77.
The Makwa Sahgaiehcan Falcons clawed the Biggar Blazers 62-38.
The Biggar Blazers beat the B Kobras 53-48. The Maple Creek Redmen defeated the Spartans 67-59.
Due to icy roads, the Royals only played one game at a tournament in Oyen, Alta. They lost to Hanna on Jan. 30, playing “a really, really good game so we thought we’d come back on the Friday and have a night in our own beds,” said co-coach Ben Cressman. Due to the rain in the night, which then froze, they ended up not trying to drive back to Oyen, said Cressman.
The senior girls’ Royals’ game here got cancelled, so there won’t be any more home games for the team this season, said manager-co-coach Jeannine James.
The junior girls team won the section based on their season record, playing their last league game on Thursday.
The Royals are to host district playoffs this Wednesday, said coach Krista Wenaas.
Kindersley and Outlook teams are expected to attend, and there was to be a playoff game in Davidson on the weekend for a wild card spot, with Eston, Davidson and Biggar teams vying for that, said Wenaas, who gave some details on how the team did at the Jan. 9-10 tournament in Outlook.
They won their first game, a close one against Assiniboia. The Royals played strong against the host Blues but “couldn’t keep up the pace in the second half,” said the coach.
“We ended up in the A-side final and had a real close last game against Foam Lake. We went back and forth the entire game. We lost by a basket. It was a tough loss. We could have had it, but that’s how the game goes.”