Sports Looking Back: Feb. 14, 2024
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This article was published 14/02/2024 (680 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
IN LOCAL HISTORY
• 60 YEARS AGO — Four-goal scoring sprees by Denny Russell and Barry Moffatt carried Souris intermediates to an 8-5 win over Wawanesa in an exhibition game. Ray Hill and Glen Couling notched two for Wawanesa with Bob Wilton scoring one.
• 40 YEARS AGO — Carol Grant was flawless in goal as Fred’s Dry Cleaners downed First Street Plaza 2-0 in a Brandon Women’s Broomball League playoff game. Patty Buckman and Francis Zimmer scored for the winners in the opening game of the best-of-three series.
• 30 YEARS AGO — Brent Kyle scored two goals, including the game- winner, to lead the Brandon Wheat Kings to a 3-2 victory over the NorMan Northstars in the Manitoba AAA Midget Hockey League.
• 20 YEARS AGO — Souris natives Jason Butler and Jared Lang combined for nine points to lead the OCN Blizzard to a 14-1 thrashing of the Waywayseecappo Wolverines in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League. Butler scored three goals and assisted in three others, while Lang had a goal and two assists for the Blizzard.
• 10 YEARS AGO — The second-ranked Brandon University Bobcats viewed the Canada West conference women’s volleyball playoffs as a new season, and played like it at the Healthy Living Centre, getting swept 3-0 (25-19, 25-20, 25-12) by the unranked University of British Columbia Okanagan Heat in the opening match of their best-of-three quarter-final.