Sports This Week: School Sport
With David McIver
School sport week
The provincial government had declared Oct. 6-11 as School Sport Week.
Last week Rosetown Central High School celebrated that with “a full slate of games set up for our fall teams,” according to its Facebook page.
Besides the night games for senior and junior football teams on Friday and Wednesday, respectively, all of the school volleyball teams got in some play last week.
Collins Legge bumps the volleyball in front of No. 8, Tess Kelly, her teammate on the Rosetown Central High senior B girls team. The senior B Royals hosted the Kindersley Kobras for five sets on Wednesday, part of School Sports Week. Photo by David McIver
The senior A and B girls volleyball teams hosted teams for matches on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The junior B girls team went to play in Outlook on Wednesday.
Both junior B and A girls teams put on a mini tournament here on Thursday, when the senior boys team competed in Outlook.
The senior A girl played five sets with the North West Wildcats here on Tuesday, which “gave us “a good opportunity to play around with our lineups and new systems on the court,” said Royals head coach Liz MacDonald.
The senior A Royals placed fourth at a tournament in Kindersley on Sept. 26-27, losing to a Martensville team in the bronze-medal game, said MacDonald who didn’t recall the scores.
The senior B Royals won one set and played fairly close in other sets against a Kindersley Kobra team here on Wednesday, going 16-25, 12-25, 25-22, 16-25 and 23-25.
The senior boy Royals won one set of five played in Outlook, said head coach Dana Bergerman. While the Blues are a good team, “we didn’t play our best,” said Bergerman.
The senior boys team will host the Blues on Thursday, will play in tournaments in Eston on Saturday and in Biggar on Oct. 25.
The Rosetown Central junior A girls team defeated the Dinsmore Composite junior girls 25-18, 25-21 in the final of the junior girls tournament here on Thursday.
Both teams compete in sectional playoffs on Saturday: the junior A Royals in Plenty and the Dinsmore Wildcats in Kyle, said Wildcat head coach Lance Morrison, who’s taking the Dinsmore grades 6-7 team to Outlook on Wednesday.
Besides playing in the tournament here on Thursday, the junior B Royals went to Outlook on Wednesday to play the Blues and the Eston Mustangs, said coach Melanie Nattrass.
They hosted Outlook and Elrose teams in exhibition games on Sept. 22 and finished fourth in a tournament in Biggar on Sept. 20, The junior B Royals began the season with a six-team tournament in Kindersley on Sept. 13. “We steadily improved throughout the day and won our crossover game,” said Nattrass.
While statistic weren’t available, “all the girls have improved their serving and bumping skills immensely since the start of the season,” she said.
The junior B girls have their own tournament on Oct. 25, said Nattrass.
There are enough senior girls in grades 10-12 at North West Central School in Plenty to have senior A and B teams, said Marcel Rousseaux, a community coach who’s returned to coaching this season.
Rousseaux is coaching the senior A girls team with help from McKenna Dipple and Madison Halter.
In tournaments so far this season, the senior A Wildcats finished second in Wilkie, second in Tier 2 in Regina, third in Unity and fourth in Gull Lake, said Rousseaux.
The team has six Grade 12 students: Cacey Toner, Gabby Stephens, Sienna Kelly, Addie Weese, Neveah Parfitt and Leyla MacDonald, he said.
Paisley Suter and Sage Gilroy, both in Grade 11, and Grade 10 player Eden Gilroy round out the team.
They have a tournament in Lloydminster and another in Macklin, said Rousseaux.
“So far, it’s been a great year, we can’t complain too much, the teams we have lost too have earned their win, we fought hard and that’s all I ask.
“We are very much looking forward to starting conferences and hopefully moving forward!” said Rousseaux.
Karate
The Rosetown Karate Club hosts the Saskatchewan Karate Association fall tournament at the civic centre on Saturday, Nov. 8.
The chief club instructor, Dave Smith, will be one of the head judges overseeing the other judges. The other local instructor, Randy McIntyre, will be judging those doing kata and kumite events.
The tournament begins with black belts at 9 a.m. Of Rosetown club members, Jordan Merrifield, who has a brown belt, will be involved in mid to late afternoon kata and kumite competitions, said McIntyre.
“We hope to have a few others” entering the tournament, he said.
At testing in Berlin in April, Smith attained Class A international judging certification and also the sixth dan or level of the black belt, of which there are 10 dans.