Sports Looking Back: April 23, 2026
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IN LOCAL HISTORY
• 60 YEARS AGO — After winning the city elementary schools Grade 8 basketball championship, David Livingstone girls took the division title at Rivers recently. Members of the winning team included Valerie Ryan, Sherry Towns, Monica Buytendorp, Mary Ferguson, Joyce Grabowski, Mary Ann Deciuk, Ann Halendy, Linda Actemichuk, Victoria Kowall and Linda Korniat.
• 40 YEARS AGO — The Neelin duo of Grant Wilson and Bob Potter was defeated by Vincent Massey’s Lyall Krahn and David Jaddock, who captured the boys’ doubles title at the Brandon high school badminton championships with a 15-5, 17-14 victory.
• 30 YEARS AGO — Former Brandonite Angela Chalmers blistered to a course record in the women’s division of the annual Vancouver Sun Run with a time of 31:05, more than a minute under the previous standard of 32:14.
• 20 YEARS AGO — Former Brandon Wheat King sniper Kelly Glowa helped end the Dynasty in the Westman Winter Hockey League final. Glowa and P.J. Crane both scored two goals to lead the Tavern United Rookies to a 6-3 triumph over the J&G Dynasty at the Keystone Centre, ending the Dynasty’s three-year reign atop the league’s Division 1.
• 10 YEARS AGO — John Quenneville scored his second goal of the game two minutes 53 seconds into overtime to lift the Brandon Wheat Kings to a 4-3 victory over the Red Deer Rebels in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference final at Westman Place.