The Melfort Mustangs won for the 15th consecutive time on Saturday night, ending their 2024 year with a 5-1 win over the Nipawin Hawks.Melfort completed the weekend sweep over their rivals with the victory, as they're now 4 and 0 against the Hawks this season."Credit to our team, the boys worked their butt off and...

The Hawks blew a 2-0 third period lead Friday to Melfort giving up three powerplay goals to the Mustangs in the final period losing 3-2 at the Centennial Arena.Carter Anderson opened the scoring for the Hawks 70 seconds into the game, lifting the almost 700 in attendance to their feet early with his Nipawin-leading 12t...

The Melfort Mustangs had a hole to dig out of to begin the third period on Friday night against the Hawks, but clearly brought the right shovel as they walked away with a 3-2 victory.Melfort scored three unanswered powerplay goals in the final frame, the last of which came with just 25 seconds remaining."The first...

The Melfort Mustangs will wrap up their 2024 portion of this year's campaign, this weekend with the Nipawin Hawks.Melfort will begin the home-and-home set, in Nipawin tonight, looking to extend their 13-game win streak."We just have to stick to our game and play how we usually play, it's an exciting last two games...

A Melfort athlete has won a Saskatchewan Games Council medal. Team Lakeland basketball player Paul Peterson has received a 2024 Lorne Lasuita Saskatchewan Games Athletic Award following his participation in the 2024 Saskatchewan Summer Games in Lloydminster. The award is given to one male and one female athlete who &qu...

It's safe to say that Humboldt native Paige Crozon ended 2024 off on a high note, as she was named tournament MVP while leading Team Canada to a gold medal at the FIBA AmeriCup.The women's 3x3 basketball player had a whopping 46 points in just five games, as Canada pulled off a 19-18 overtime win in the final, against ...

The Tisdale Trojans are heading into their Christmas break on a high note. The Trojans downed the Prince Albert Mintos 5-2 at the RECPlex Wednesday night. Tisdale's Ramy Borowsky scored the lone goal in the first period. Pryce Thiessen and Eric Han put the Trojans up 3-1 after two periods. The Mintos closed to within o...

The Hawks dropped an 8-2 decision in Flon Flon Tuesday, Nipawin's 16th straight loss to the Bombers.Seeking the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) team's first win at the Whitney Forum since Feb. 15, 2022, the storyline was all too familiar as the Bombers jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first period and never loo...

The Melfort Mustangs snuck by the Notre Dame Hounds Tuesday night, beating them by a score of 2-1 for the second time this season.Despite the fact that Melfort outshot Notre Dame 41-19, the Mustangs didn't score the game-winning goal until there were just 56 seconds left in the game.That goal came from a Zac Somers bla...

The Melfort Mustangs are on the road Tuesday as they travel down south to Wilcox to take on the Notre Dame Hounds.The contest marks the first of three games for the Mustangs this week, which will wrap up the 2024 portion of their season.Melfort enters their first meeting of the season in Notre Dame on a 12-game win str...

The Nipawin Hawks have three games remaining prior to the Christmas break with the first being Tuesday in Flin Fon against the Bombers.Coming off a 3-0 loss to La Ronge Saturday that snapped a five game home points streak and a four game point streak overall, Head Coach Tad Kozun's message to his group this week is don...

On Saturday night the Nipawin Hawks were shut out 3-0 by the La Ronge Ice Wolves snapping the team's five game-home point streak and their four-game overall point streak in the process.In Friday's Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) schedule Nipawin outpaced the Ice Wolves 7-4 on the road, but the return date in N...

A lot of local flavour in this week's SJHL Player of the Week awards. Ashton Hutchinson of the Melfort Mustangs was named the SGEU MVP of the Week in the SJHL, after netting three goals and three assists in three Mustang wins, as the team is riding a 12-game winning streak. The Nipawin Hawks also have a big presence on...

The Melfort Mustangs remain the third-ranked team in the country. The Mustangs remain third in the CJHL's Top 20 rankings this week after extending their winning streak to 12 games. Melfort started their weekend with a 3-2 win over Humboldt at the Northern Lights Palace on Friday, after the Broncos staked themselves to...

A big six-goal outburst in the third period lifted the Tisdale Trojans to a 7-6 win over the Saskatoon Blazers at the RECPlex on Sunday. The Blazers led 4-1 after two periods, with Cooper Atkinson scoring the lone Trojans goal. Sean Shiels and Justin Whitrow scored two goals in the first minute of the third to cut the ...

The Melfort Mustangs met with the Humboldt Broncos for the first time this season, playing a weekend home-and-home set against their out-of-division rivals.The streaking Mustangs pulled off the two-game sweep on Saturday night, following a 3-2 comeback victory on Friday, with a dominant road effort resulting in a 5-2 w...

The Nipawin Hawks have their first win over La Ronge this Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) season after a 7-4 rout Friday.The Hawks jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first period on goals by Vito Biondo, Ashton Tait, and Conor Ryan and never relinquished a lead all night. Ryan added a powerplay goal in the third ...

The Melfort Mustangs had to rally back Friday night at home, in their first meeting of the season with the Humboldt Broncos.Melfort trailed 2-0 after the first period but were able to pull off the comeback and win the game 3-2."It wasn't looking too good to start, and then Blevs gave us a good ripping into in the ...

The Melfort Mustangs host the Humboldt Broncos Friday night for the first of four meetings this season.The two local rivals haven't met since April, 16th, back in last season's second-round playoff matchup.Melfort won in seven games, with an OT thriller at the Palace to cap it off, en route to their SJHL Championship a...

The Nipawin Hawks added a forward to their roster this week before junior 'A' hockey's roster freeze for Christmas. The Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) club announced yesterday that they acquired 18-year-old forward Jack Shierau from the Calgary Canucks of the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL). In exchange, ...

The Melfort Mustangs will host the Humboldt Broncos this Friday, for their annual Teddy Bear Toss game.When Melfort scores their first goal, fans will get the opportunity to litter the ice with stuffed animals, all in support of a good cause."The teddy bear toss game is always a fan favourite and the players have ...

The Tisdale Trojans' winning streak is over at 10, after a 4-2 road loss to the Prince Albert Mintos. P.A. stormed out to a 2-0 lead after the first period before Sean Shiels of the Trojans scored the lone goal in the second. The Mintos made it 3-1 about six minutes into the third period, but Tisdale cut the lead to 3-...

The Nipawin Hawks are making a habit climbing back into games and earning wins, but Tuesday the comeback was too early in a 6-5 overtime loss to Yorkton.The Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) clubs were meeting for the third time this season and second and final time in Nipawin, the Hawks three game home winning ...

The Humboldt Broncos had made a trade for a local and former Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) player.Humboldt is sending Gabriel Filion to the Drayton Valley Thunder of the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) in exchange for Tisdale native Zach Bansley.Bansley, a 19-year-old forward spent this season split betw...

The Hawks are on home ice again Tuesday seeking their fourth straight victory at the Centennial Arena.Nipawin has points in their last four games at home including a 4-3 shootout loss to the Battlefords on Nov. 26. The Hawks have disposed of Yorkton and the Estevan Bruins twice in that span. On Friday the Hawks downed ...

No surprise that Reilley Kotai is on the SJHL's Player of the Week list.The Melfort Mustangs forward is the SGEU MVP of the Week for the second time. Kotai has 15 points in his last four games, including nine in the three games he played last week. The Abbotsford, B.C. product leads the SJHL scoring race by two points....

The Nipawin Hawks have shown plenty of resilience lately, but not to the level of Saturday's comeback 4-3 win over Estevan at the 'Cage.'Capping the weekend that featured back-to-back games against the Bruins in Nipawin highlighted by hosting the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) team's parent and billets, the H...

The Melfort Mustangs pushed their win streak to 10 games Saturday night, in absolutely dominating fashion.Melfort rolled into La Ronge and then rolled over the Ice Wolves with an 8-0 victory.The Mustangs have now outscored their opponents 27-4 in their last four games.Two of those wins came against the Ice Wolves, as t...