Sports Looking Back: Jan. 17, 2026
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IN LOCAL HISTORY
• 50 YEARS AGO — Don Jackson scored 20 points and Bob McCreath added 18 as the Vincent Massey Vikings defeated Moose Jaw 72-49 in varsity boys high school basketball tournament action.
• 40 YEARS AGO — Walter Tetzlaff earned a big 8-3 nine-end victory over Brian Fowler in the final of the Brandon Men’s Curling Bonspiel.
• 30 YEARS AGO — Ritchie Barwick, Paul Mandziuk, Travis Laing, Derek Gilbert and Wayne Clyne scored goals to pace the Boissevain Border Kings to a 6-1 South West Hockey League triumph over the Elkhorn Canadians.
• 20 YEARS AGO — The CHL Top Prospects Game has left the Brandon Wheat Kings without their leading scorer on a tough two-game East Division road trip this week. Centre Codey Burki — ranked 26th last week among draft-eligible North American skaters by the NHL’s Central Scouting Bureau — left for Ottawa to compete in the Top Prospects Game.
• 10 YEARS AGO — The Neelin Spartans took control in the second quarter and withstood a second half charge to beat the River East Kodiaks 87-73 and win the eight-team Vincent Massey JV Boys Basketball Classic.