Sports This Week: Royals split teams for girls basketball; local bowlers advance
By David McIver
BASKETBALL
One team didn’t make the trip, which led to the host Royals playing as two teams to fill out the eight-team draw at the senior girls basketball tournament on Dec. 12-13.
The Royals A team lost 51-32 to the Unity Warriors in the A final. The Royals B team fell 32-19 to the Clavet Cougars in the game for seventh place.
The Biggar Blazers defeated the McLurg Broncs of Wilkie 40-31 in the consolation final.
The Macklin Sabres had withdrawn from the tournament, so the host team didn’t exactly split into two teams but brought up junior players to supplement senior players when playing twice as many games.
This meant that in the A final, the Royals A team was playing its third game on Saturday while the opposing Warriors were only playing their second.
Willemina Heinrichs scored 11 points and Brenna Zummack added eight to lead the Royals, while Tylan Blanchette scored 29 points for the Warriors.
The Royals A team reached the final with a 29-25 victory over the LCBI Bisons. Zummack led the Royals with 13 points, and Rayna James added nine. Annabelle Burns topped Bison scoring with nine points.
Because the core of the A and B Royals were the same players, they didn’t face each other in the first game of the tournament early Friday afternoon, using the time for a practice game with the Bisons, who won their opening match by forfeit. Their opponents, the Broncs, missed the game after getting the time wrong.
The B Royals, relegated to the consolation side, had their first game, a 39-29 loss to the Broncs. Statistics for that and other Royals games weren’t available.
In other games, the Assiniboia Rockets defeated the Bisons 38-27 to finish third. The Rockets had beaten the Clavet Cougars 54-27 on Friday and then lost 45-33 to the Warriors in a semifinal. The Biggar Blazers lost 52-31 to the Warriors in the last Friday game and then edged the Cougars 42-41 on Saturday morning.
The junior girls Royals weren’t done for the year after that tournament. They went to Eston on Dec. 16 and won 43-19. Sydney Dessert scored 17 points, Macy Wick added nine, and Gracie Rawson contributed eight for the Royals. Teagan Unrau scored 10 points to lead the Mustangs.
The Rosetown Central junior boys team beat the Outlook Blues B team 58-37 here on Dec. 15. Will Speir and Caleb Woudwijk each scored 14 points to lead the Royals, and Jasper Adnam contributed 10 points, according to coach Melanie Nattrass.
BOWLING
Rosetown and area bowlers did well at the Rising Star tournament zone round held here on Dec. 13.
Local bowlers Brian Andersen, Dale Der, Ashleigh Hyatt, and Marilyn Miller of Perdue made the zone A team, which will compete at the provincial tournament. Jerry King, Darion Jones, Walter Fernets, and Leonard Lapierre of Lashburn made the B team.
The Rising Star provincial tournament will be held Feb. 14-15 in Regina, at the same time as the Fun Bowl companion tournament.