Matt Dunstone, Brendan Bottcher to meet in Brier showdown
Regina’s Matt Dunstone staff improved its report to 6-0 on the Brier by defeating P.E.I.’s Tyler Smith 8-6 on Tuesday afternoon.
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Regina’s Matt Dunstone team is carrying a 6-0 report into Wednesday morning’s showdown with Crew Canada’s Brendan Bottcher on the Brier in Lethbridge.
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Dunstone, third Braeden Moskowy, second Kirk Muyres and lead Dustin Kidby remained undefeated by posting an 8-6 victory over Prince Edward Island’s Tyler Smith in Tuesday’s afternoon draw on the Canadian males’s curling championship.
Additionally within the afternoon, Bottcher improved to 5-0 with a 10-4 victory over the Yukon’s Wade Scoffin.
The Dunstone-led Highland Curling Membership foursome — one of many three wild-card groups on the Brier — is to conclude Pool A play Thursday afternoon when it faces Saskatchewan’s Colton Flasch.
The Saskatoon quartet of Flasch, third Catlin Schneider, second Kevin Marsh and lead Daniel Marsh improved to 3-2 on Tuesday afternoon by registering a 6-3 victory over Ontario’s Glenn Howard.
Flasch has two matches on Wednesday. He performs Scoffin within the morning draw and opposes Newfoundland and Labrador’s Nathan Younger within the night.
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One other honour for Clark
Emily Clark of Saskatoon is Sask Sport’s athlete of the month for February.
Clark, a ahead, helped Canada win a ladies’s hockey gold medal on the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Canada defeated america 3-2 within the championship sport. She completed the Olympics with two objectives and one help.
Thom triumphs twice
Tyler Fox scored 17 factors to steer the Thom Trojans to a 57-55 victory over the Luther Lions in Regina Intercollegiate Basketball League playoff motion Monday evening. Isaac Stettner scored 15 factors for Luther.
In one other senior boys White Division quarter-final, the Laval Lion obtained 33 factors from Dady Nkoripfa in a 71-44 victory over the Scott Wolves. Josh Panipekeesick led Scott with 24 factors.
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In Monday’s senior women White Division quarter-finals, Thom obtained 23 factors from Olivia Malowany in a 43-35 victory over the Regina Christian Grizzlies, and the Johnson Wildcats defeated the Martin Monarchs 58-28.
Broncos promote Praught
Devan Praught has been named the full-time head coach of the WHL’s Swift Present Broncos.
Praught had been serving because the interim head coach since Oct. 14, following the resignation of Dean Brockman.
Below Praught, the Broncos have an 18-25-5-2 report and have battled their manner into rivalry for an Jap Convention playoff spot.
Earlier than becoming a member of the Broncos on July 30, Praught had spent eight years instructing and training at Athol Murray Faculty of Notre Dame in Wilcox.
He guided the Hounds to Saskatchewan Male Below-18 AAA Hockey League titles in 2018 and 2019, together with a nationwide championship — the Telus Cup — to cap the 2018-19 season.
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The Broncos are to return to motion Friday, 7 p.m., in opposition to the visiting Edmonton Oil Kings.
Cougars ninth
The University of Regina Cougars males’s basketball staff has moved up one spot, to ninth, within the weekly U Sports activities rankings.
On Sunday, the Cougars superior from a playoff match and earned a berth within the Canada West Ultimate 4, which runs March 18 and 19 in Edmonton.
Over those self same two days, the unranked Cougars ladies’s basketball staff will compete within the Canada West Ultimate 4 in Saskatoon.
Soccer focus
Soccer Canada’s inaugural nationwide ladies’s under-18 championship is to be held July 1 to 9 in Regina.
Video games are to be performed July 3, 6 and 9.
