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Spring season football champions By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer The Raider Gridders added another championship to its growing resume as a team, but this one did not come easily. Playing a shortened spring season – only five games – Yorkton was undefeated through the regular season, but played the final in Moose Jaw Sunday. And it was a nail biter, with the Raider Gridders winning 37-36. “Moose Jaw came to play. They are a well-coached team with good players,” noted Yorkton head coach Jason Boyda. “And the championship was played in their own backyard so we wouldn’t have expected anything less.” Still the close score was something the Raider Gridders had not experienced in years, admitted Boyda who noted they have tended to secure wins by multiple touchdown margins the last several years. But, the tight score, and unusual season just made the championship one to be remembered. “Each championship is special in its own unique way,” he said, adding for the Grade 12 players who graduate it was just getting to play, overcoming adversity along the way. “It was a difficult year. They didn’t have fall football. They didn’t have regular classes. They didn’t have a regular graduation,” said Boyda, adding it was a year of adversity the players have to get through on and off the field. The close final was just one more hurdle to overcome. “It was another challenge ... The players didn’t back down. They took it headon,” he said. Of course just getting to play this spring was huge. Boyda said back in May when Premier Scott Moe first tweeted that outdoor sports were going to be allowed, he wasn’t even sure it was real, so he did
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Kozak takes provincial golf crown By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer Yorkton’s Ella Kozak is the 2021 Saskatchewan Women’s Amateur champion. The 15-year-old golfer took the lead into the final round on Thursday at Swift Current’s Elmwood Golf Club. Kozak was pushed by Autumn Neiszner all the way to the 54th hole but Kozak’s final hole par and round of 77 was enough to edge Neiszner by a single shot. “It felt really good,” she told Yorkton This Week Friday. “It was certainly a battle towards the end.”
Going into the final day Kozak had an edge, but a thin one. “I had a two stroke lead going into the last day,” and the pressure just stayed on through the final round. “It was very nerve racking.” But, Kozak said she wanted the win, and used that desire to focus. “I tried to just keep calm and finish the round,” she said. It seemed to be working. “I was two up with two holes to play,” said Kozak, who watched the runner-up cut the lead in half before her par on 18 secured the win. Kozak’s win at the Women’s
I had a two stroke lead going into the last day... It was very nerve racking. — Ella Kozak Amateur championship follows Kathy Ziglo, who started her golf career in Yorkton win-
ning in 2019. Ziglo also won in 1995. Kozak, while only 15, is a
veteran golfer now having played in her first tournament eight years ago. She said the Saskatchewan Women’s Amateur championship is certainly her biggest win to-date. Kozak will try to repeat her effort this weekend in Moose Jaw at the Hillcrest Golf Club as she participates in the Saskatchewan 2021 Junior Championships. “I just want to play some strong rounds,” she said. Kozak’s Women’s Amateur championship earns her a spot at the Canadian Amateur Women’s Championship in Spruce Grove, Alberta from July 27 – 29.
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