Sports Looking Back: Feb. 20, 2025
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This article was published 19/02/2025 (290 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
IN LOCAL HISTORY
• 60 YEARS AGO — The Oak Lake 16-and-unders defeated Virden 12-4 in an exhibition hockey game. Gabriel Elk paced the Oak Lake team with five goals. Wallace McLean scored three goals and Chris Bothe had two.
• 50 YEARS AGO — The youngest athlete in the Canada Winter Games in Lethbridge, Brandon’s nine-year-old Tammy Josephson, teamed with Shilo’s Steven Villard to pick up a silver medal in the Class B figure skating dance, giving the Brandon area its first medal of the Games.
• 40 YEARS AGO — Chris Hicks poured in 48 points to lead the Killarney Raiders to a 98-77 victory over Virden Golden Bears in a Zone 9 high school basketball game. Kelly Stuart topped Virden with 27 points. In girls’ play, Shelly Simpson’s 22 points paced the Golden Bears to a 68-48 victory. Rhonda Opperman led Killarney with 18 points.
• 20 YEARS AGO — Brandon’s Cyndall Robertson highlighted the Westman efforts at the Manitoba Open Figure Skating Championships. Robertson was a winner in the Ladies Creative Skating Skills and took second in the Gold Ladies Freeskate, edging out Reston’s Brittany Bartel who finished third.
• 10 YEARS AGO — Brandon’s Zach Whitecloud and Roblin’s Justin Krantz have been named co-winners of the Manitoba Aboriginal Sports and Recreation Council’s male athlete of the year honours.