IN LOCAL HISTORY

• 60 YEARS AGO — Martin Clinic beat Legion 9-5 in Pony and Colt league final action. Jack Engelbretson hit a home run and a single for the winners, and Alvin White, Dave Burman and Ted Grant each singled for Legion.

• 50 YEARS AGO — Terry Robertson stroked four singles in support of pitcher Mike Koltez as Sharpes defeated Brandon Chrysler 14-4 to win the Brandon Minor Baseball Association’s West End championship. Bill McLeod tripled for the winners.

• 40 YEARS AGO — Centre Dean Evason of Brandon and right winger Wayne Babych have signed multi-year NHL contracts with the Hartford Whalers.

IN LOCAL HISTORY

• 60 YEARS AGO — Knights of Columbus defeated the Canadian Inn 12-10 in the B city finals as Cliff Clisby hit three singles.

• 50 YEARS AGO — Andy Malazdrewich tossed a three-hitter to lead UCT to an 8-6 win over Brockies to square the best-of-three East End A final at one game apiece in the Brandon Minor Baseball Association.

• 40 YEARS AGO — Gene Hodgson of Kenton fired a second-round 74 at the Shilo Golf and Country Club to win the Westman Invitational golf tournament by four shots over Grant Coulter of Brandon.

A handful of Brandonites were named Baseball Manitoba award winners on Tuesday.

Caitlan Nickel is the 19-and-under women’s player of the year, while Quinn Naturkach is the top 13U player.

The 11U AA Brandon Marlins earned the honour of grassroots team of the year.

In addition, Ernest Elder was selected for the Larry Nicholls umpire award of merit, while Brad Schoonbaert is one of three being named to the honour society, along with Greg Hercina of Dauphin and Gerry Janz of Baldur.

IN LOCAL HISTORY

• 50 YEARS AGO — Richard Scott captured the modified class in his MG Midget, edging Mic Burke and Rob Ransom, as the Wheat City Sports Car Club held its final event of the 1976 slalom series.

• 40 YEARS AGO — Brandon’s Dan Halldorson won his first Canadian Professional Golf Association championship and secured the $20,000 winner’s purse.

• 30 YEARS AGO — A pre-season battle over the backup goaltending position with the Brandon Wheat Kings is likely to go into overtime. Two players — 17-year-old Robert Muntain and 18-year-old David Haun — split the playing duties in four pre-season games, with Muntain posting a 1.80 goals-against average and Haun putting up a 3.42 goals-against average.

Zach Lamb scored the first goal of the Brandon University men’s soccer season in the team’s second game on Sunday.

The goal helped them secure a point in a 1-1 draw against the visiting Providence University College Pilots in Manitoba Colleges Athletic Conference action at the Healthy Living Centre field.

In the women’s game, Hayley Medeiros scored the lone goal in a 1-0 Pilots win.

On Saturday, both Bobcat teams were blanked by the St. Boniface Les Rouges. The men went down 1-0 as Hamidou Diallo struck in the second half.

IN LOCAL HISTORY

• 60 YEARS AGO — Bruce Kent of Brandon won the high overall trophy, as well as placing first in the Brandon annual fall shoot Class A competition, shooting 97 of a possible 100.

• 50 YEARS AGO — Paul Solon had his second tournament win this summer with an easy six-stroke victory in the 94-man field at the Sunnyside Golf and Country Club men’s open. Solon shot a three-over-par 74 to outdistance his closest pursuer, Brandon’s Dub Mundell, who had an 80.

• 40 YEARS AGO — Defenceman Trevor Semeniuk, a veteran who found himself in a tough fight to make the Brandon Wheat Kings’ roster, gave up the struggle when the 19-year-old left training camp.