Weyburn Review - December 14, 2022

Weyburn hosts CurlSask Barber Motors U15 and U18 junior curling bonspiels

Junior curlers in the U15 and U18 categories played in the CurlSask Barber Motors Junior Curling Tour bonspiel on Friday and Saturday at the Weyburn Curling Rink, with a Weyburn rink winning gold in the U18 category.

The U15 teams played in a triple format, with each rink comprised of three players who took turns playing each position. There were teams from Oxbow, two from Weyburn and two from Kincaid who took part.

In the U18 category, playing with four members each, there was one Weyburn rink, one from Estevan, three from Regina and one from Gainsborough.

In the U15 event, the “Average Joes” rink of Weyburn was comprised of players Cale Porter, Laura Woodard and Sarah Woodard. The rink lost in the B final to Team Small Town Shooters, who went on to win the bronze.

The JKL rink from Weyburn included Kristin

Loroff, Jyllian Payak and Lauryn Chicoine. They lost in the A semi-finals to the Ice Queens.

Team Haupstein was comprised of Karter Haupstein, Dylan Honig, Caden Schurko and Jyler Goebel, and was coached by Joanne Maurer.

In the gold medal game, versus Team Moulding of Regina, both teams went in with a record of four wins and one loss.

The Haupstein rink was up one with the hammer in the eighth end, and

put the pressure on early with a draw by Goebel to the back button, behind Moulding’s guards.

Moulding responded by putting their shot rock at the top of the button, and Haupstein removed the shot rock with an angle double, missing the jam on his first shot.

Moulding made a draw to the button, but it was in the open. Schurko and Goebel swept the final shot hard to just miss the guard. It hit Moulding’s rock and stuck to win the game.

Weyburn Red Wings split weekend games

The Richardson Pioneer Weyburn Red Wings captured a win and suffered a loss in weekend action on home ice.

They doubled up the Kindersley Klippers 4-2 on Friday night, which was also teddy bear toss night, and then were edged out 3-2 by the Melfort Mustangs on Saturday night.

The Klippers wasted no time starting the scoring 12 seconds into the game, but then newly-acquired Ryley Morgan began scoring a hattrick on the night with a goal at 1:20, from Matteo Turrin and Ty Mason, and then again at 11:52 from Nicholas Kovacs and Turrin.

The Klippers tied the game with seven seconds to go in the first period.

Morgan completed his hattrick in the second period, again assisted by Turin, and Elijah Anderson added a goal 1:17 into the third period, assisted by Simon Pollock.

Dazza Mitchell was in

net for the full 60 minutes, saving 23 of 25 shots.

In Saturday’s game, the Mustangs and Red Wings each scored in the first period, with Pollock putting the puck in the net at 16:03, assisted by Anderson.

Kovacs scored in the second period on the powerplay, assisted by Jackson Hassman and MiKwan Tallman.

Melfort tied the game on the powerplay in the third period, and then scored the game-winning goal at 12:47.

Matt Schoephoerster was in goal for the game, and was pulled with 52 seconds in the game for the extra attacker. He saved 19 of the 22 shots that came his way.

The next action for the Red Wings will be to host the Notre Dame Hounds on Friday, Dec. 16, then they go on the road to Humboldt to play the Broncos on Dec. 17 in their final game before the Christmas break.

Local teams post wins in Big Six league action

Both the Yellow Grass Wheat Kings and the Midale Mustangs posted wins in their weekend games in Big Six Hockey League action.

The Wheat Kings trounced the KW Oil Kings by a score of 11-1 on Saturday night, while the Mustangs edged out the Carlyle Cougars 4-3

on Sunday evening.

In the Wheat Kings game, held at the Yellow Grass Communiplex, the Wheat Kings set the pace in the first period, leading 3-1 after the first 20 minutes and dominating for the remainder of the game.

The first period goals came from Kyle Crozier, Dylan Frey and Andrew Hulbert; Frey added a second goal in the second period along with Zach Douglas’ two, and Judson Christopherson; and in the third, Brandt Hudson had two, and Burke Johnstone and Luke Niemegeers each added one.

Nolan Bergen was in net for Yellow Grass for the entire 60 minutes.

In the Midale game, played at Harry O. Memorial Arena in Midale, Connor Burk scored for the Mustangs in the first period, and the second period was all Midale, with goals from Tayler Thompson, Steven Lindenbach and Kendall Oliver.

Carlyle attempted a come-back in the third period, but it wasn’t enough in the end as they lost 4-3.

Talen King was in net for the Mustangs for the full 60 minutes.

The two teams will meet in Midale for their next game on Friday, Dec. 16 at 8 p.m.

Weyburn Comp Eagles boys win gold at Warman tournament

The Weyburn Comp Eagles senior boys basketball team won the gold medal in a tournament in Warman over the weekend.

They first defeated North Battleford Jean Paul by a score of 79-55, then defeated the host team, Warman, by the score of 73-53.

Finally, the Eagles defeated Estevan for the gold medal by the score of 68-56.

Their next action is in Brandon, Man., this upcoming weekend.

The Weyburn Comp senior girls basketball team was in Swift Cur -

rent on the weekend.

The girls had a good but tough weekend. Friday night they lost their first game to Moose Jaw Peacock, putting them on the consolation side of the draw. Saturday morning they won the semi in an exciting match against Regina Luther that went into overtime.

The Saturday night game versus North Battleford was another close game, but the girls lost, ending the weekend with a 1-2 record. Next weekend they are off to Indian Head for their final tournament before the holidays.

WCS Eagles boys win gold in Warman

Photo – courtesy Cory Olson

The Weyburn Comp Eagles senior boys basketball team came home with the gold medal from their first basketball tournament of the season in Warman over the weekend. In the back row from left is coach Derek Houghton, Chace Kradovill, Conner Kerr, Carter Houghton, Sutter Balog, Isaiah Sanderson, Jaxon Cook, Thomas Olson, and coaches Zachary Olson and Cory Olson. In front are Jack Kradovill, Tristan Pallapatoc, Tiki Umbach, Jake Dammann and Mitchell Cherpin. They defeated North Battleford Jean Paul 79-55, the host team, Warman, by a score of 73-53, and Estevan 68-56. They will be travelling to Brandon for a tournament this weekend.

Scoring a second time

Review Photo 6314 – Greg Nikkel Red Wings forward Ryley Morgan, at left, flipped this puck over the goalie for the team’s second goal, and his second goal on a three-goal night, in the game against the Kindersley Klippers on Friday night.

Goal celebrated with the tossing of teddy bears

Photo 6521 – courtesy Nick Nielsen Weyburn Red Wing players Jackson Hassman, Nick Kovacs, Ty Mason and Lucas Jeffreys held some of the 231 teddy bears thrown onto the ice when teammate Ryley Morgan scored against the Kindersley Klippers on Friday night. The bears were collected and given to the Salvation Army for use in Christmas hampers this season.

sports

Young Weyburn girl sets four provincial lifting records

Paige Wahl of Weyburn attended the Saskatchewan Powerlifting Association’s “Last Chance” powerlifting meet in Moose Jaw on December 10.

Paige competed in the newer SPA Youth 1 division. You must be eight years old to compete, and Paige turned eight on Nov. 19.

Paige weighed in at 27.5

kg (60.5 lbs.), and finished the day with a 17 kg squat (37.4 lbs.), 11 kg bench press (24.2 lbs.) and a 27.5 kg deadlift (60.5 lbs.), totalling 55.5 kg (122.1 lbs.) which secured her four Saskatchewan Provincial records in the Youth 1 30 kg division.

Paige competes with her mom, Chelsea, and is coached through Bridgecity

Barbell out of Saskatoon. Paige was very nervous to compete but encourages everyone to try hard things because you never know how strong you are.

Affiliated powerlifting gyms can be found on the SPA’s website. Locally in Weyburn there is Olympia in Depth, coached by Ryan Fowler, whose team includes other youth lifters.

Making her final deadlift Paige Wahl, who is eight years old, is shown making her final deadlift of 27.5 kg, which matches her body weight, at the meet over the weekend.

Pondering their next shot

Review Photo 2947 – Greg Nikkel Members of the JKL rink of Weyburn took a few moments to consider how their next shot should be made, during the CurlSask U15 junior curling spiel on Saturday. The rink played triples rules, and included Lauryn Chicoine, Kristin Loroff and Jyllian Payak. The curling club also hosted the U18 curling event over the weekend.

Wrestling club hosts clinic

Review Photo 2985 – Greg Nikkel

A clinic for new coaches and young wrestlers was held on Saturday by the Weyburn Wrestling Club, with visiting provincial coach Fuji Tang, at right. Weyburn coach Greg Kiraly is in the red shirt at left, and the wrestlers are Ephraim Henning and Seth Peeler. He helped with the development of new wrestling coaches in the club as well as helping novice wrestlers. The club hosted a wrestling tournament on Sunday with 160 wrestlers taking part.

Pinning down his opponent for the win

Review Photo 3250 – Greg Nikkel Weyburn wrestler Ephraim Henning got his opponent’s shoulders to the mat as the referee hit the mat to indicate the end of the match and a win for Henning. This was part of the action on Sunday as the Weyburn Wrestling Club hosted a wrestling tournament in the WCS Eagle gym, with 160 wrestlers from around the province attending.

Team Haupstein wins gold

Photo 3356 – courtesy Danette Tracey Team Haupstein of Weyburn won the gold medals in the U18 CurlSask Barber Motors Junior Curling event held on Friday and Saturday at the Weyburn Curling Rink. They included Karter Haupstein, Dylan Honig, Caden Schurko and Jyler Goebel, and coach Pam Haupstein.

Photo – courtesy Chelsea Wahl