Sports shorts: The Huskie women’s basketball team remains undefeated

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The University of Saskatchewan Huskies basketball teams hosted their first Canada West meet this weekend with big wins against the MacEwan Griffins.

Extending their unbeaten streak to four games, the women’s team defeated the Griffins both nights, winning 91-27 on Friday and following that up with an 84-33 win on Saturday.

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Saskatchewan’s Carly Ahlstrom led both teams in scoring in the first game with 24 points, while teammate TÉa DeMong took over that role with 19 points in the second game.

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On the men’s side, the Huskies improved to 3-1 with wins 78-61 on Friday and 81-55 on Saturday, with Alexander Dewar scoring a career-high 25 and 20 points on both nights.

CROSS COUNTRY

Top Dogs at the U Sports National Championships in London, Ont. they were on sunday Kaitlyn Harrisonwho finished the women’s race in fifth place with a time of 29:28.2, a Alexander Websterwho finished in 50th place among men with a time of 25:58.9.

There was also competition on the women’s side Allison Grajczyk (43.), Jaira Cross Child (75th), Jenica Swartz (91.), Avery Pearson (98.), Sarah Novakowski (123) i Allison Novecosky (128), doc Dylan Bauman (55.), Kaiden Deck (95), Kinley Cross Child (134.), Jay’s Cross Child (144.), Angel Tenorio (151.) i Evan James (153.) ran on the men’s side.

HOCKEY

The women’s team played against the Calgary Dinos this weekend.

In Friday’s game, Calgary scored a man-down goal in the first period, a regulation-strength goal in the second and a man-down goal in the third for a 3-2 victory over the Huskies, who received goals from Kate Ball and Kara Kondrat.

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The next evening, Mallory Dyer he scored one minute, 27 seconds into the game to give Saskatchewan a 1-0 lead, but a Calgary field goal soon followed to tie the teams at one shot in the second.

In that period, Sophie Lalor and Taylor Wilkinson both scored for the Huskies, and the team was able to hold off the Dinosaurs for the rest of the game to come away with a 3-1 victory and improve their record to 8-3-0-1, fourth in the Canada West.

Meanwhile, the men’s team lost back-to-back games against the visiting Dinos, extending their losing streak to three games after ending the 2023-24 season. started with a nine-game winning streak.

Saskatchewan lost 5-2 in Friday’s game, s Carter Stebbings and Josh Pillar each scored for the Dogs, followed by a 5-3 loss to Stebbings on Saturday, Cade Hayes and Justin Ball picked up the goals.

U of S is now third in Canada West with a 9-3-0 record.

Blades narrowly beat home Broncos

The Saskatoon Blades increased their record to 13-5-0-0 on Friday with a 5-4 win over the home-town Swift Current Broncos in Western Hockey League action.

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Down 2-1 early in the second period, the Blades were able to keep the Broncos off the grid while the Saskatoon Brandon Lisowsky scored twice and Rowan Calvert once for the visitors’ lead of 4-2 before the last period.

Midway through the third period, the Broncos cut the lead to 4-3 with a goal Yegor Sidorov added a cushion for the Blades at 18:03.

The Broncos’ comeback failed as they managed to add another goal before the end of the game, but with just four seconds left.

Blades netminder Austin Elliott he made 16 saves on 20 shots, while Reid Dyck stopped 28 of 33 for Swift Current.

Saskatoon is next in action on Nov. 14 when they host the Moose Jaw Warriors.

City high school volleyball champions crowned

Last week, the city championship of secondary schools in volleyball was held in four divisions.

In the Premiere Division, Saskatoon Christian School won 3-0 over Holy Cross on the boys side, but on the girls side, Holy Cross beat St. Joseph 3-0.

Meanwhile, ED Feehan beat Marion Graham 3-0 in the Boys’ Champions Division, while Aden Bowman beat Marion Graham 3-1 on the girls’ side.

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The end of high school provincial football

The high school football season in Saskatchewan is over for another year after the provincial finals this weekend.

In 1A, Hafford narrowly defeated Lemberg 57-54, while Clavet cruised to a 46-40 win over Watrous in 2A, Lumsden posted a 38-14 win over Shaunavon in 4A, Weyburn won 35-15 against Aden Bowman in 5A, and Regina Miller went 12 -10 against Holy Cross in 6A.

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