Sports This Week: Rosetown girls advance in conference playoffs while Royals boys fall by one point
By David McIver
Basketball
Senior basketball teams at Rosetown Central High School had to win games last Friday to stay in conference playoffs this past weekend.
The senior boy Royals lost 42-41 to the Biggar Blazers in Watrous that day, which ended their season. Only two of six teams in Watrous were to qualify for regional playoffs.
Their senior girl schoolmates won their Friday game, defeating the Delisle Rebels in Biggar 81-42. Their win put them among the top four teams and qualified them for regional playoffs.
The girl Royals were to play the LCBI Bisons in a game starting at 12:45 p.m., after press time for this issue. Should they have won, the girl Royals would play in the conference final. A loss to the Bisons would only affect their seeding for regional playoffs, the location of which hadn’t been determined at press time.
Rayna James led the Royals against Delisle with 32 points. Willemina Heinrichs scored 15, Brenna Zummack got 12 and Sydney Dessert, nine.
Charlize Gareau scored 10 points and Reese Vandenameele, nine, to lead the Rebels.
Badminton
Senior players at Rosetown Central High School have their first tournament of the season this Saturday in North Battleford. They have another next Saturday in Swift Current. The Royals have their own tournament on April 18.
Junior players at the school had a tournament here last Saturday and then have recreational games in Biggar on Friday and competitive tournaments in Biggar on Saturday, in Unity on the 26th and Wilkie on the 27th.
Wrestling
Neda Robertson of Rosetown won the gold medal in her category at the high school regional meet in Moose Jaw on March 7.
Iain St. John and Wade Halliday, fellow Elrose Wrestling Club members, also took part but did not place.
Another teammate, Easton Stan, hurt his back lifting weights earlier in the week, said club coach Russell Fersch.
Stan attempted one match but pulled out, said Fersch.
Robertson qualified for the provincial meet, which was to be held this past Friday and Saturday at Evan Hardy Collegiate in Saskatoon.
Bowling
Local bowlers are expected to compete in Masters tournaments in Saskatoon on Saturday and Sunday.
The Prince Albert 5 team won the fourth annual Les Wardrop Memorial Tournament held here on March 6-8. Twenty-five four-person teams took part.
James Vermette, Jessica Dix, Derek Hlewka and Matthew Parenteau finished with a best three-out-of-four-game score of 3,869.
Vermette, Dix, Parenteau and Derek Bird made up the second-place Prince Albert 2 team, which had a 3,804 score.
The Rosetown-Biggar 2 team of Mark Moon, Janet Moon, Lanny Lamarche and Val Fossen bowled a 3,736 score for third.
The Rosetown 2 team of Dave Brigham, Mik Pridmore, Cliff Forsyth and Walter Fernets finished with a 3,671 score for fourth.
Gymnastics
Several Rosetown Gymnastics Club members won medals and ribbons at the Power in the Prairies invitational meet in Saskatoon hosted by the Taiso Gymnastics Club.
“Our younger athletes are training two to four hours a week compared to a minimum of six hours in the city clubs, so to be placing in medals and ribbons is such an awesome accomplishment for our club’s athletes, competing in such a large meet,” said club coach Fern Dyer.
Taylor Van Hove won the silver medal all around in the Inter-Club Bronze class.
In Age Group A of the Bronze class, Laurel Kahovec placed fifth in vault, seventh on bars, fourth on beam and floor and sixth all around, and Adalyn Lefebvre finished eighth on vault.
In Bronze Age Group B, Sage Aylward placed third on beam, seventh on floor and eighth all around.
Also in Bronze Group C, Hailey Emmons finished fifth on vault, seventh on bars, fifth on beam, sixth on floor and fifth all around, and Hanley McCracken placed third on bars, sixth on beam, seventh on floor and all around.
Four took part in Bronze Group D.
Mahlon Johnston finished third in vault and bars, eighth on beam and fifth on floor and all around. Ella Mann placed fourth on vault and bars, eighth on floor and seventh on bars and all around. Kassie Aylward finished sixth on vault.
Violet Gray placed sixth on vault and eighth on floor in Bronze Group E.
In Bronze Age Group G, Alexus Cledgett finished fifth on vault, seventh on bars, fourth on beam, floor and all around, and Thea Sedgwick placed fourth on bars and sixth on floor and all around.
Three competed in Bronze Age Group H.
Aubrey Lovenuk tied for second on vault and finished second on bars, fifth on beam, seventh on floor and first all around. Victoria Currie-Scott tied for second on vault and placed eighth on bars, fourth on beam and floor and seventh all around. Brielle McCracken won on bars and placed sixth on beam and eighth on floor and all around.
Eight local gymnasts participated in the silver class.
Mila McKinley won on bars and finished eighth on vault, fourth on beam and floor and fifth all around in Age Group A.
Jordyn Ginther placed seventh on vault and bars and fifth on floor in Group C. Kamryn Ismond finished second on floor in Group E.
In Group F, Andrea Nunweiler placed fourth on vault, seventh on floor and eighth on bars, beam and all around, and Ryleigh Herman finished fifth on bars.
Three were in Group G. Ivy Turk placed fourth on vault and beam, sixth on bars and third on floor and all around. Avery Hey finished fifth on vault, third on bars, sixth on floor and seventh all around. Karlee Anholt placed third on beam, fourth on bars and eighth all around.
Four club members competed in the gold class.
Audyn Gilroy finished sixth in vault and Paysley Ogilvie placed sixth on bars in Age Group C.
Kaia Ginther finished sixth on vault and seventh on beam in Group D.
Arabella Gilroy placed eighth on vault, seventh on bars, fourth on beam, seventh on floor and fifth all around in Group F.
Ball hall annual meeting
For people around here who are interested in baseball history, the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum Inc. has its annual meeting on Sunday, April 19, starting at 1 p.m. Only paid members can vote, but anyone can attend, said Bev Labbe, secretary for chief executive officer Jane Shury.