IN LOCAL HISTORY

• 60 YEARS AGO — Ev Barker of Melita, Barry Sambrook of Medora and Garth Seafoot of Nesbitt are the only rinks that have come through the Souris Men’s Bonspiel untouched by the hand of defeat so far in the spiel.

• 50 YEARS AGO — Ken Eastman scored three goals to provide the margin of victory as Virden Oil Kings defeated Wawanesa JV Bobcats 8-5 in a SouthWest Hockey League game. Bob Mallet added a pair while Murray Good, Scott Larway and Herb Braybrook chipped in with singles for the Oil Kings.

• 40 YEARS AGO — Leanne Ellwood tossed in 28 points to lead Killarney Raiders to a 77-23 victory over Souris Sabres in high school varsity girls’ basketball action. Carla Nichol and Dianne Smirl added 10 points each for the winners.

IN LOCAL HISTORY

• 50 YEARS AGO — Susan Heaman scored two goals, including the winner, in leading Brandon Blazing Hawks to a 5-4 win over Goodlands in Westman Girls Hockey League play at the UCT Arena. However, later in the game she suffered a broken arm.

• 40 YEARS AGO — Jill Bednorski scored 21 points and Lisa Patterson added 13 to lead the Crocus Plainsmen junior varsity girls in their 43-38 Brandon High School Basketball League victory over Neelin Spartans.

• 30 YEARS AGO — Cory Cyrenne and Bobby Brown both scored twice for the Brandon Wheat Kings as they hammered the Prince Albert Raiders 5-1 in WHL action. Kelly Smart added a single.

IN LOCAL HISTORY

• 60 YEARS AGO — Lorne Judd had a triple score of 707 at the Thunderbird Bowl. Judd rolled single games of 269, 223 and 215 to accomplish his feat. Only one other series over 700 has been recorded in league play since the opening of the Thunderbird.

• 50 YEARS AGO — Vic Blandford, Bob Larabie and Gary Easter scored for Derksen Plumbing and Heating in a 3-1 win over Shilo Gunners in Manitoba Broomball Association play.

• 40 YEARS AGO — Brad Wells scored five goals and assisted two others as Neepawa Natives blitzed the visiting Hamiota Huskies 10-1 in a SouthWest Hockey League game.

BOYS

BRANDON WHEAT KINGS

The Wheat Kings (26-6-0-1), who are tied with the Winnipeg Bruins for second place, swept the 12th-place Norman Northstars (2-32-1-2) at Thompson’s C.A. Nesbitt Arena in the Manitoba U18 AAA Hockey League over the weekend.

On Sunday, Kevin Knee had a pair of goals and the Wheat Kings received singles off the sticks of Benjamin Sveistrup, Matthew Dupuis, Cole Dupuis and Crew Elder in a 6-1 Brandon win. Easten Turko had two assists.

IN LOCAL HISTORY

• 40 YEARS AGO — Brandon’s Jeff Partrick won the junior men’s title at the Central Canadian division figure skating championships in Sudbury.

• 30 YEARS AGO — Paul Mandziuk’s hat trick powered the Boissevain Border Kings to a 10-5 triumph over the Pierson Bruins in South West Hockey League action. Wayne Clyne, Gord Ransom and Travis Laing each added a pair of goals while Darryl Albrecht scored once for the Border Kings.

• 20 YEARS AGO — Brandon’s Lois Fowler finally relinquished her grip on the Knickers Wheat City Curlettes league on Wednesday but it wasn’t without a fight. Joyce McDougall split two rocks into the house with her final stone to edge Fowler 6-5 in the Curlettes playoff at the Wheat City club in the Curlettes final, ending Fowler’s seven-year stint at the top of the league.

IN LOCAL HISTORY

• 60 YEARS AGO — The Waskada Comets walloped the Boissevain Border Kings 12-3 in a Southwest Hockey League game. Bob Payne paced the Comets to their win with a four-goal effort while Jim Spence added three.

• 50 YEARS AGO — Herman Dyck’s three goals propelled the Boissevain Border Kings to a 7-6 SouthWest Hockey League victory over the Pierson Bruins.

• 40 YEARS AGO — In a NorthCentral League game in Brandon, the Angusville Flyers dumped the Juvenile Wheat Kings 7- 4. Glen Katchin led the Flyer attack with a hat trick while Dale Sidoryk scored twice.

IN LOCAL HISTORY

• 60 YEARS AGO — Beryl Simpson of Riverview scored a 7-5 victory over Midge Horn of Lenore to win the women’s curling zone playdowns in Virden.

• 50 YEARS AGO — Brandon University Bobcats beat the South Division all-stars from the SouthWest Hockey League 9-5. Jeff Sheardown scored three goals for BU, while Wayne Naka and John Goran both scored twice.

• 40 YEARS AGO — Forwards Byron Lomow and Derek Laxdal of the Brandon Wheat Kings were selected to the Eastern Division all-star team announced today by the Western Hockey League.

IN LOCAL HISTORY

• 60 YEARS AGO — Bill Robinson was named winner of the H. L. Krug Crawford Memorial Award as The Sun’s Sportsman of the Year for western Manitoba in 1965. At 20 years of age, this outstanding gymnast is one of the youngest athletes to win the award. Runners-up were Rich Wozney, Bill Fairbairn, Jim MacDonald and Peter Isaak.

• 50 YEARS AGO — Brandon Wheat Kings’ left-winger Dale McMullin, the team’s leading scorer with 31 goals, and centre Danny Bonar, runner-up to McMullin in points with 59, were two of seven players named to the Eastern Division all-star team.

• 40 YEARS AGO — Alec MacGranachan scored with 20 seconds remaining to lift the Elkhorn Canadians in to an 8-7 victory over Virden Oil Kings in a SouthWest Hockey league game. Rodney Frederick scored twice for the Canadians.

Logan Van Santen scored 15 points as the Vincent Massey Vikings beat the Crocus Plainsmen 74-44 in Brandon High School Basketball League varsity boys’ action on Wednesday.

Victor Adereme-Fawoye led Crocus with 17 points.

In the JV boys’ game, Nahom Gebeyenu netted 16 points to lead Massey to an 82-55 win, with Daniel Adetoro pacing Crocus with 10 points.

On Tuesday, the Plainsmen varsity girls beat the Vikings 61-26 on Iliana Courchene’s 17-point effort.