The under-15 AAA Brandon Wheat Kings swept their best-of-five Winnipeg Hockey League U15 AAA quarterfinal series over Winnipeg Wild Green with three wins in the last four days.

In Game 1 on Thursday at J&G Homes Arena, Cash Didluck made 28 saves, Graycen Van Meijl scored twice and Riley Mangin, Daniel Flett-Neapew and Sully Taylor also sniped in a 5-0 victory.

Luca Auriti made 50 saves for Winnipeg.

The Wheat Kings widened their series lead on Saturday at J&G Homes Arena as Jett Wood posted a hat trick and Kale Nicol had two goals and three assists in an 8-3 victory.

The Brandon Black Bears lost 5-4 to the Lorette Comets in their quarterfinal matchup and were eliminated from the U11 Rural D provincial tournament in Manitou.

Alex Main scored twice for Brandon, with singles coming off the sticks of Tristan Starr and Ryker Tait. Mack Kopeechuk had a pair of assists.

Bennett Johnson and Wyatt McConnell both scored twice for the Comets, with Parker Devisser potting the other goal.

On Saturday in round-robin action, the Black Bears fell 4-3 to the Virden Jr Oil Capitals 4-3. Zane Hodgins had a pair of goals for Virden and Hayden Jamieson and Gabe Hunter also scored, with Tristan Starr, Mack Kopeechuk and Weston Sanderson replying for Brandon.

IN LOCAL HISTORY

• 60 YEARS AGO — Bruce Bonk scored twice as the Deloraine Wheat Kings took a one-game lead in the provincial Junior B semifinals with a 5-3 win over Dauphin.

• 50 YEARS AGO — Bruce Stephens, Clark Tweed, Gord Henry, Don Morrison and Kerry McLeod scored in Deloraine’s 5-1 triumph over Boissevain in the SouthWest Hockey League playoffs.

• 40 YEARS AGO — Dwayne Speares scored three times as the City Centre Canadians dumped the Keystone Motor Inn Outlaws 6-1 in a Shilo and District Men’s Broomball League game.

IN LOCAL HISTORY

•60 YEARS AGO— Brilliant netminding by Al Johnstone and two goals from Juha Widing helped the Brandon Wheat Kings dump Moose Jaw Canucks 5-3 in SJHL action.

• 50 YEARS AGO— Carey Murray’s second goal of the game, with only 1:50 remaining to play, lifted Pierson Bruins to a 3-2 win over Waskada Comets, in an MAHA playoff game.

• 40 YEARS AGO — Randy Cullen scored 28 points to lead Earl Haig to a 48-37 win over Vincent Massey in a Brandon High School Basketball League junior varsity game.

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• 60 YEARS AGO— Shirley Bray and her Brandon rink of June Clark, Mildred Murray and Myrna Graham sported an unblemished record to cop the top event in the Portage ladies’ annual bonspiel.

• 50 YEARS AGO— Minnedosa Bombers scored seven goals in the second period en route to a 12-1 win over Pilot Mound Pilots in MAHA Intermediate B playoff hockey. Barry Chernos, Dave LeBoutillier and Brian Bruce contributed two goals and two assists each.

• 40 YEARS AGO— Virden Oil Kings ended their best-of-three SouthWest Hockey League preliminary round with an 8-5 victory over Elkhorn Canadians. Brian Braybrook led the Oil Kings with three goals.

The U18 AAA Westman Wildcats defeated the Pembina Valley Hawks 8-3 at home in Hartney late Tuesday night to sweep their best-of-five series and advance to the second round of the Manitoba Female Hockey League playoffs.

Captain Ivy Perkin, who finished the series with five goals and 14 points, led the way in Westman’s clinching victory with two goals and three assists, while Rachel Lyver, Hadley Robertson, Kasia Baranyk, Ivy Fry, Lucy Waldner, and Ava Snyder all added singles to dispatch Pembina Valley.

The Wildcats will now wait for the first round to wrap up following the completion of the Eastman Selects/Central Plains and Winnipeg Ice/Interlake Lightning series’, where Eastman and Winnipeg both lead 2-0.

The Winnipeg Avros were the first club to advance to Round 2 after sweeping their series with the Yellowhead Chiefs.

Assiniboine College Cougars goaltender Rachel Halldorson has been named the American Collegiate Hockey Association’s women’s Division 2’s player of the month for January.

The Cougars netminder, who is from Lundar, posted a 0.50 goal-against average and a .965 save percentage with six victories in January as her team went 6-0-0-0, outscoring their opponents 27-3.

The Cougars, who are the top-ranked team in the West Region, head to the 2026 ACHA national championships from March 15 to 19 at the Centene Community Ice Center in Maryland Heights, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis.

» The Brandon Sun

IN LOCAL HISTORY

• 50 YEARS AGO— Brent Munroe of Brandon and Lorna Manzer of Calgary won gold medals at the Winter Olympics for the physically handicapped in Ornskoldsvik, Sweden. Both medals came in the five-kilometre cross-country ski race for one-legged competitors.

• 40 YEARS AGO — Lisa Maluga scored into an empty net in the second period of overtime to give Fred’s Dry Cleaners a 1-0 win over Brandon Club Straycats in a Women’s Broomball League playoff game.

• 30 YEARS AGO — Jason Smith scored 3:16 into overtime to lift the Hamiota Huskies to a 9-8 triumph over the Sioux Valley Dakotas in North Central Hockey League action. Derek Patterson scored four goals for the Huskies. Joe Halfe replied with three goals for the Dakotas.

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• 60 YEARS AGO— The Oak Lake senior hockey team crushed Kola 15-0 in a league game. Russell Kufflick paced Oak Lake with five goals.

• 40 YEARS AGO — Ross Fraser and his Hamiota rink of Harry Brooks, Franklin Brooks and Frank Mathison edged Wildwood’s Lyle Henry 7-6 to win Manitoba’s masters curling championship in Selkirk.

• 30 YEARS AGO — Scott Brooks scored twice to lead the Birtle Blazers past the Kenton Cougars 5-3 in a North Central Hockey League game. Bill Bowley, Dave Barteaux and Mike Sotas also scored for Birtle. Rob Stockham, Destin Hunt and Robin Hill replied for Kenton.

BOYS

BRANDON WHEAT KINGS

The third-place Wheat Kings (38-6-0-3) had their game against Winnipeg Bruins postponed to next week and then had a home-and-home series with the Yellowhead Chiefs in what was supposed to be the final weekend of the Manitoba U18 AAA Hockey League’s regular season.

On Sunday afternoon at Shoal Lake Communiplex, Cole Dupuis, Reid Nicol, Easten Turko and Hudson Champagne scored as the Wheat Kings topped the Chiefs 4-1.