Sports Looking Back: Feb. 18, 2026
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IN LOCAL HISTORY
• 60 YEARS AGO — Jim Johnston won the grand aggregate of the Brandon Rifle and Pistol Association handicap marker. Johnston placed in all four competitions. Second was Bill Milne.
• 50 YEARS AGO — Rick Durnin’s 20-point performance helped lift Vincent Massey Vikings to a 41-34 win over Neelin Spartans in a junior varsity boys’ game in the Brandon High School Basketball League. Don McPherson had 12 points for the losers.
• 40 YEARS AGO — Steve MacTash and Rick Westfall recorded shutouts in Shilo and District Men’s Broomball League play. MacTash was perfect in goal as City Centre blanked the Unwinder Bulldogs 3-0. Meanwhile, Westfall shut out Keystone in Hyundai’s 1-0 victory.
• 30 YEARS AGO — Neepawa got two goals apiece from Dan Senff and Ryan Ogilvie as it fought back to tie the visiting Dauphin in an MJHL game. Neepawa also got goals from Dale Isfeld and Chris Orbanski.
• 20 YEARS AGO — Chad Jacobson used his hands for much more constructive purposes for the Brandon University Bobcats men’s basketball team. Jacobson, who was involved in an altercation with Winnipeg Wesmen forward Ryan Roper the last time the two teams met on Feb. 4, scored 23 of his game-high 25 points in the first half to lead the Bobcats to an 83-77 win in Game 1 of the best-of-three Great Plains Division semifinal.
• 10 YEARS AGO — Tyler Coulter scored his first career hat trick and added two assists as the Brandon Wheat Kings beat the Kootenay Ice 11-1 at Westman Place on Wednesday.