Sports Looking Back: Oct. 3, 2025
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IN LOCAL HISTORY
• 60 YEARS AGO — Rivers exploded to hand Minnedosa a 32-6 beating in the Rolling River Football league schedule. The Ram’s touchdowns came from Murray McPherson, Mike Sheen, Wayne Wagner, Larry McCullough and Jim Madder. Madder also converted two touchdowns to lead Rivers’ assault.
• 50 YEARS AGO — Neelin Spartans hammered out a 69-6 decision over Dauphin Clippers in a South West High School Football league game. John MacKay ran for 199 yards, caught four passes for an additional 132 yards, and scored four majors to bring his seasonal total to 15 — tops in the league. Joe Osinski with two, and Grant Griffith, Barry Rabe and Mark Yeomans with one apiece, scored the other Spartans touchdowns.
• 40 YEARS AGO — Earl Hodge was in top form when he rolled 100 pins over average for a 278 game and 180 pins over series for a 624 in five-pin bowling.
• 30 YEARS AGO — Peter Schaefer, Mike Dubinsky, Ryan Robson and Daniel Tetrault scored as the Brandon Wheat Kings downed the Calgary Hitmen 4-1.
• 20 YEARS AGO — Randy Ferbey soundly defeated Jennifer Jones in the Kings vs. Queens Battle of the Sexes skins game between the reigning Canadian men’s and women’s curling champions at the Keystone Centre.
• 10 YEARS AGO — Tatum Amy scored a goal and set up two others as the Yellowhead Chiefs opened the Manitoba Female Midget Hockey League season with a 4-0 win over the Norman Wild in Shoal Lake.