Category Archives: Local Sports
U15 girls provide strong showing at nationals
The Battlefords Volleyball Club (BVC) U15 girls are coming off a recent fourth-place finish at nationals that saw the team battle through some of the country's top opposition in the process. Head coac...
May 17, 2019 This season served as the first trip to nationals for all-but two of the U15 girls, an experience that should only bode well for each on the team moving forward. (submitted photo/Regan Lavallee)
Friends of the Riders lottery ends after long run
A fixture in Saskatchewan for the past 33 years is shutting down.Tom Shepherd, the founder and president of the Friends of the Riders Touchdown Lottery, announced Thursday that the lottery is being di...
May 16, 2019 (file photo/CJME News Staff)
Wednesday's Scoreboard
Wednesday's GamesNSRBLLloyd Twins 7, Unity Midgets 3 World Hockey ChampionshipUnited States 6 Britain 3Germany 3 Slovakia 2Switzerland 4 Norway 1Russia 10 Italy 0NHL PlayoffsWestern Conference FinalSa...
May 16, 2019 (file photo/battlefordsNOW staff)
JPII duo earns provincial bronze in doubles badminton
For Grade 11 students Guiel Salunga and Kaitlin Tarasoff, badminton has been a passion and a craft the pair have enjoyed since Grade 8 at John Paul II Collegiate. Now with a provincial bronze medal to...
May 15, 2019 JP II Grade 11 students Kaitlin Tarasoff (left), and Guiel Salunga (right), pictured here with their Provincial bronze medals. (submitted photo/Vic Stynsky)
CFL, CFLPA reach tentative agreement
It looks like the CFL season will go ahead as planned.The league and Canadian Football Players Association announced Wednesday they have reached a tentative agreement on a new collective bargaining ag...
May 15, 2019 (file photo/CKOM News Staff)
Tuesday's Scoreboard
Tuesday's GamesNSRBLUnity Midgets 5, Meadow Lake 10Unity Seniors 8, Macklin 7Mervin 4, Lloyd Twins 9Standard Hill 11, St. Walburg 1 World Hockey ChampionshipDenmark 9 Britain 0Germany 4 France 1Latvia...
May 15, 2019 (file photo/battlefordsNOW staff)
Jon Ryan fulfils a lifelong dream
Jon Ryan's childhood dream has come true.The CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders officially announced Tuesday that they had signed Ryan, a 37-year-old Regina product who grew up cheering for the team and w...
May 14, 2019 Jon Ryan. (Britton Gray/980 CJME)
Monday's Scoreboard
Monday's GamesWHL FinalsVancouver 2, PA 3 (OT)PA wins series 4-3 World Hockey ChampionshipUnited States 3 Finland 2 (OT)Canada 6 Slovakia 5Russia 3 Czech Republic 0Sweden 9 Norway 1 Stanley Cup Playof...
May 14, 2019 (file photo/battlefordsNOW staff)
Local badminton player places third in provincials
Grade 11 student at North Battleford Comprehensive High School (NBCHS), Luke Fennig, is no ordinary student. The teenager added 'provincial bronze medalist,' to his credentials in singles badminton th...
May 13, 2019 With his bronze medal over the weekend, Luke Fennig, right, became the first NBCHS athlete to medal in male singles badminton at the provincial level since 1980. (submitted photo/Mark Kotchorek)
Senior baseball league expands to feature three teams from Battlefords
The North Saskatchewan River Baseball League (NSRBL) kicks off their 2019 season tonight with one game on the schedule for opening night. The Battlefords Trappers will head to Lloydminster to take on ...
May 13, 2019 The North Battleford Beavers (pictured here) will be one of three NSRBL teams featured in the Battlefords community for the 2019 season, ensuring lots of local rivalry and friendly competition within the community’s ball diamonds. (Brady Lang/battlefordsNOW Staff)