WEYBURN – The WCS Eagles junior boys and girls played in their last tournaments of the season at St Michael School over the weekend.
The junior girls beat St. Mikes 35-29 on Friday night, and then defeated Fillmore 82-17 in the final Saturday for their first tournament championship of the season.
On the boys side, the boys lost for the first time since December to a tough team from Swift Current 43-42. On Saturday they rebounded with a 62-47 victory over Oxbow and a close 49-46 victory over St. Michael.
The boys will play districts at St. Michael on Wednesday, March 8, while the girls will travel to Oxbow the same day for their district finals.
This past weekend was the final regular season tournament of the year for the WCS Eagles senior girls basketball team. They went down to Estevan where they played Estevan Friday night for the big Pink game.
The entire tournament was dedicated to raising funds and awareness for cancer, with 100 per cent of the proceeds donated to an ECS student who is currently battling cancer.
“It was an honour to be invited to play in the Pink game, taking part in a ceremony before the game where each coach and player released a pink balloon into the ceiling, dedicating that game to someone they love who has either survived, is still battling, or has passed away from cancer. It was a thoughtful, emotional ceremony,” said coach Karly Johnson.
The game itself was exciting, with the lead going back and forth all game and Weyburn eventually winning by one point.
On Saturday, the girls lost to Moose Jaw Vanier, placing them in the bronze medal game, where they lost to Moose Jaw Peacock.
The senior girls will be hosting Estevan and Yorkton on Friday and Saturday, March 10-11, for some exhibition games to stay fresh before they head to Lloydminster for Regional playoffs on March 17-18. Weyburn will play Yorkton Friday night at 6:30 p.m., and will play Estevan on Saturday at 3:30 p.m.
The WCS Eagles senior boys went to the ROCK tournament in Regina over the weekend.
The first game they played Regina Thom and lost by seven points. Their second game on Friday was against Saskatoon Christian School and another tight loss came their way.
In the third game, the Eagles played Regina Scott Collegiate and got outshot from the three-point line and fell for the third time.
In their last game on Saturday the senior boys came away with the win versus Luther. All in all, it was a weekend where the shots went cold and the games were close. The next action will be in two weeks when they will attend the SHSAA regional tournament in Moose Jaw.
In high school curling, the Weyburn Comp Eagles team of Carter Haupstein, Dylan Honig, Caden Schurko and Jyler Goebel are Regional Champs.
They played in Lampman and defeated Regina Campbell, Yorkton Regional and Sturgis to go undefeated. They will now advance to provincial playoffs in Rosthern on Friday and Saturday, March 10 and 11.
In high school wrestling, Cale Mohan had a busy weekend wrestling. First it was up to Meadow Lake to high school regionals on Saturday, where he went two wins and one loss for silver, and earned a seed in High School Provincials in two weeks in at M.C. O’Neil High School in Regina.
Then Sunday he attended the SAWA Provincials in Saskatoon where he was undefeated with four wins for the gold, and became U19 71KG provincial champ.
