The best quips, quotes and anecdotes from January through June, 2025 (Part 1).

The senior Rosetown Redwings, after hosting the Kindersley Kodiaks last Friday and playing the Dodsland Stars in Kerrobert the next night, host the Stars this Friday…

The senior girls’ basketball team at Rosetown Central High School had a tournament here this past Friday and Saturday, with teams from Biggar, Assiniboia, LCBI, Clavet, Wilkie, and Unity expected to attend.

The senior Dinsmore Dynamos had a record of four wins, one overtime win and one loss for fourth place in the Sask Valley Hockey League going into their home game…

Kathryn Claffey looks for options with the basketball against the defence of Madison Rawson (L) and Carla Heinrichs among others during an impromptu Royals game vs. parents, siblings and coaches…

Laurie Evans races to hit the ball while partner Robbie Hingston watches during pickleball at the civic centre on Dec. 8.

It’s been a great year for Canadians on the world’s athletic stages. As 2025 winds down, it’s time for the year-end awards in the top three categories — male and female athlete and top team.

The Rosetown Central High senior girls basketball team, who host their own tournament this weekend, won a tournament in Biggar on Nov. 28-29.

Chase Urban of the U-11 Redwings - Billett team gets his stick on the rolling puck. Jake Jahnke (41), goalie of the Herbert Hawks, reaches for it.

Sydney Dessert of the Rosetown Royals races for the basket ahead of Esmé Meszaros of the Biggar Blazers. This game opened the junior girls tournament here this past weekend.

In hockey-mad Canada, fans spend their time watching hockey, thinking about hockey, talking about hockey and mentally planning Canada’s roster for the 2026 Olympic Games in Italy.

Coaches don’t usually seek attention in amateur sports, but one coach got some of that—along with all 49 senior Rosetown Royals football players—at the season-end awards banquet on Tuesday.

Local and area girls scored all of the goals when the U-18 A Western Prairie Redwings shut out the Saskatoon Comets 4-0 on Friday night.

A Rosetown Central High junior girls curling team began practising on Nov. 5, said community coach Darby Freistadt. The team includes Kalli Bacon, Andrea Kahovec, Kathryn Claffey and Annabel Main.

The Rosetown Golf Course would only again use contaminated water flowing past it in an “emergency,” club president Ryan Wickett said last week.

Coach Wendy Wiens works with young Aubrey Keith on skating skills during the Rosetown Skating Club practice on Wednesday.

The Rosetown Golf Club had “a pretty successful year,” president Ryan Wickett said during the group’s annual general meeting on Nov. 20.

For Herschel area native Daniel Wiebe, the sting of the University of Saskatchewan Huskies’ recent Vanier Cup loss may have been lessened last week by the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Jeremy Bides hits the bird while partner Clint Kennedy watches during badminton last Wednesday at the civic centre.

Let’s start by looking at the Sask West standings. In first is the Kindersley Klippers with a 5-1 record, followed by the Wilkie Outlaws with a 4-0 record. In third is the Edam 3 Stars…