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It was a clean sweep for the Yorkton Sacred Heart Saints at the 2023 Saskatchewan High School Provincial Soccer Championships.
The Sacred Heart ladies captured the 4A Girls event in Regina after beating Martensville, 8-1 in the Gold medal game.
Meanwhile the Sacred Heart boys won Gold after blanking Lake Lenore
3-0 in the title game, after hammering host Humboldt in the Semi-Final.
The
Yorkton Regional Ladies earned the Bronze medal in the 5A Girls
championships in Yorkton after a 1-nil victory over Swift Current.
The Melville Millionaires improved their record to 7 and 2 on the season after a 5-3 victory on Tuesday night over the visiting Melfort Mustangs.
Euan Morrison (1G 1A), Colby Ball (1G 1A), Caden Drury (2A) and Luc Bydal (2A) led the Mils offensively with 2 points each, while Matt Kjemhus, Jaden Iyogan and Kole Keen also scored.
Chase Friedt-Mohr, Ryan Duguay and Hayden Prosofsky replied for the Mustangs, who got 32 saves from James Venne who suffered his first defeat in between the pipes on the season.
Mils netminder William Dyke improved to 6-1 on the season after stopping 32 of 35 shots.
The Millionaires' will embark on a three game in three nights road-trip starting on Friday night at the Whitney Forum in Flin Flon.
Post Game audio with Mils Asst.Coach Geordie Wudrick
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MJHL
Kyle Grysiuk had 1G 1A as the Winnipeg Freeze used a three goal first period earn their 1st win, a 4-3 victory over the Swan Valley Stampeders at the MJHL Showcase.
Kylow Monkman, Nicholas Cullen, and Jayden Ward also scored for the Freeze who got 35 stops from Braxton Burdeny in the win.
Owen Warnick, Alex Walicki and Amar Powar replied for the Stampeders whose record dropped to 3-9-1 on the season.
Swan Valley returns to action on Friday night hosting the red-hot Virden Oil Capitals at the Centennial Arena.
other Tuesday results:
Winkler Flyers 2 Dauphin Kings 3 (SO)
Niverville Nighthawks
4 The Blizzard 0
Waywayseecappo Wolverines 3 Portage
Terriers 6
Virden Oil Capitals 7 Winnipeg Blues 3
Trey Sauder and Luke Schaeffer scored but it wasn't enough as the Swan Valley Stampeders dropped a 3-2 decision to the Selkirk Steelers to kick-off their 2023 MJHL Showcase.
Mathieu Catellier, Joel Purdom and Nick Giasson led the Steelers offensively while Nick Olsanowski made 28 saves to earn the victory.
Elias Giaccari-Dimitriou turned aside 35 of 38 shots in the loss.
The Stampeders will be back on the ice on Tuesday afternoon in Winnipeg at 2:00PM MB time vs. Winnipeg Freeze
Other Monday results:
Winkler Flyers 7 Neepawa Titans 1
Dauphin Kings 2
Niverville Nighthawks 5
The Blizzard 4
Steinbach Pistons 3 (OT)
It was a great opening of his first full year of professional hockey for Yorkton's Jackson Berezowski.
STAMPEDERS 1, OIL CAPITALS 10
The Swan Valley Stampeders dropped their third straight on Friday night falling 10-1 to the Virden Oil Capitals on the road.
The Stamps' strike first just over 15 minutes into the third as Callum Halls re-directed home a Trey Sauder wrist shot past Eric Reid to make it 1-0.
But the Oil Caps responded with two quick ones just 34 seconds apart from Nolan Chastko and Brice Bryant to give them a 2-1 lead after 1 period.
The offence continued for the home team throughout as they added three more in the 2nd and 5 goals in the final frame en route to their 4th straight win.
Chastko and Roux Bazin each had two, while Joey Bielik, Naton Miller, Luke McKenzie, Braeden Lewis, and Brett Sabel also scored.
Eric Reid made 26 saves on 27 shots to earn the win, while Elias Giacarri-Dimitriou made 30 saves in the loss.
The Stampeders look to rebound on Saturday night hosting Neepawa, while Oil Capitals entertain the Winnipeg Freeze.
Other Friday MJHL results:
Niverville 1, Steinbach 7
OCN 5, Selkirk 2
Waywayseecappo 5, Winnipeg Blues 3
Portage 6, Winnipeg Freeze 2
The Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League is out with their weekly award winners from the past week, and a member of the Melville Millionaires was honoured.
17 year old forward Kole Keen was named as the league's Rookie of the Week.
The White City, Saskatchewan product netted his 1st SJHL goal over the past week, while also adding three assists in three games in helping the Mils sweep their Highway 10 rivals, the Yorkton Terriers over the weekend.
Keen in his 1st season, currently 1 goals, 6 assists for 7 points in 7 games.
Other weekly award winners from this past week included Humboldt's Kody Thue (MVP/Defenceman of Week), Braxton Buchberger of Nipawin (Saskatchewan player of week), Flin Flon's Harmon Laser-Hume & Kenneth Marquart (Goalie of the Week) and Justin Lies of the Flin Flon Bombers (Forward of the Week).
SJHL
BOMBERS 5, TERRIERS 0
Alexi Sylvestre scored twice, while Jacob Vockler had 1G 2A to lead the Flin Flon Bombers to a 5th straight win, a 5-0 decision on Tuesday over the Yorkton Terriers.
Liam Bridger and Brock Mueller also scored for the Bombers who got a 35 save shutout from Harmon Laser-Hume.
Terriers' starter Blake Sittler made 28 saves on 33 shots in the losing cause.
The Terriers return to the ice on Friday night hosting their Highway 10 rivals, the Melville Millionaires.
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MJHL
STAMPEDERS 0, TITANS 2
The Swan Valley Stampeders had their record drop to 2 and 4 on the season after a 2-0 road loss on Tuesday night to the Neepawa Titans.
Mason Lobreau stopped all 31 shots he faced for Neepawa to earn the shutout while Cody Gudnason and Cooper Kasprick chipped in with the Titan goals.
Liam Vanderkooi did all he could in the Stamps net making 41 saves on 43 shots.
The Stampeders' next game will be on Friday night entertaining the Selkirk Steelers at the Centennial Arena.
The Melville Millionaires' 3 game winning streak came to an end on Monday afternoon after a 4-3 road to the Estevan Bruins at Affinity Place.
The Bruins got on the board first just 5:47 in as Keegon Little capitalized on some sloppy defensive zone play from the Mils and tucked home his 1st of the season to make it 1-0.
Then just over 3 minutes later they made it 2-0 as Ilya Chmelevski took a nice feed in front Brendan Hunchak and beat Mils' netminder Ethan Rau far-side for his 2nd at the 8:50 mark of the 1st frame.
The visiting Millionaires got off to a hot start in the 2nd as 8:57 in, Brendan Olson finished off his 2nd of the season to make it 2-1 then just 3 minutes later, Flynn Maxcy went top-shelf over the left shoulder of Cam Hrdlicka to pull the Mils even.
But the great 2nd period got put to a halt as Owen Barrow notched home another powerplay goal with just 1:42 left in the middle frame to regain Estevan a lead at 3-2 through 2 periods.
The Bruins regained their two goal lead with 7:41 left in regulation as after a scramble in front,Felix Allard tapped home the eventual game winner to push it to 4-2.
The Mils got one late in the final minute on the powerplay as Colby Ball's point shot snuck through but that's as close as they would get.
Bruins' G Cam Hrdlicka made 29 saves on 32 shots to earn the victory while Ethan Rau in the his first start in the Mils' crease made 28 stops in the loss.
The Millionaires return to action on Friday night visiting the Yorkton Terriers for the first Highway 10 battle of the regular season, while Bruins entertain the Flin Flon Bombers on Friday night.
The Yorkton Terriers put together a strong effort on home ice but weren't rewarded as they fell 4-2 on Wednesday to the La Ronge Ice Wolves.
In a 1st period that was dominated by the Terriers, it was the Ice Wolves that got the only goal as SJHL leading scorer Mason Bueckert capitalized on a Terrier turnover and potted home his 5th of the season to make it 1-0 after 1 period.
The top-ranked Ice Wolves powerplay added to to their lead early in 2nd as while up two-men, Parker Layton walked in from the left point and sniped home his 1st of the year over the left shoulder to make it 2-0 then just over 3 minutes later Seth Dragan tapped in a rebound by Caleb Allen for his 2nd to give the visitors a three goal advantage after 40 minutes.
In the 3rd, the Terriers finally got some offensive luck as 11:18 into the period Dylan Ruptash finished off a nice feed from Clay Sleeva & buried home his 3rd to make it 3-1.
Just 2 minutes later the Terrier cut their deficit within one as Regina's Cade Kennedy completed a nice passing play from linemates Ruptash and Sleeva for his 2nd of the season.
But that's as close as the home team would get as Rylan Silzer iced it into the empty net with 5 seconds left to help the Ice Wolves snap a three game slide.
Ice Wolves goaltender Topher Chirico was the difference making 40 stops to earn the win, while Terrier netminder Caleb Allen stopped 12 of 15 shots in the losing cause.
The two teams will meet again on Saturday night at the Westland Insurance Arena, but before that the Ice Wolves continue their roadie on Friday night visiting the Melville Millionaires
Yorkton Terrier defenceman Tyson Perkins was named the SJHL's Defenceman of the
Week.
