Local Sports

The Flin Flon Bombers split a pair of weekend games against MJHL opponents. On Friday, the OCN Blizzard were in town.

Homemade hamburgers and hotdogs helped generate $4,000 for a local organization over the weekend. Canadian Tire’s Jumpstart program reaped the benefits from hungry supporters on Saturday.

Who knew that running could be fun? There’s a reason my dad jokes that runners should just buy a car. But it turns out running through the streets of Saskatoon and getting pelted with coloured cornstarch is actually quite fun.

Pickleball is only now becoming a popular sport in Manitoba, but for two local snowbirds it is already a big part of their active lives.

SkateCanada has adopted new changes to its CanSkate programs for the 2014 season, but the local skating club won’t be seeing many differences on the ice.

Chris Bortis was this year’s top golfer at the Walt Cunningham Labour Day Classic tournament. The Phantom Lake Golf Course saw 96 golfers hit the links for the three-day tournament.

There is still plenty of golf left to be played at the Phantom Lake Golf Course. Golf pro Chris Doyle says the greens are in the best shape of the year. “The course is in excellent condition,” said Doyle, in his second season at PLGC.

Two strong efforts by the Flin Flon Bomber rookies have the team with one win and one shootout loss heading into tonight’s exhibition game against the OCN Blizzard.

Welcome to the first installment of “Bomber Beat.” Once you get past the obligatory cheeseball use of alliteration in the name, I hope you will come to find this column a valuable source of information for all things Bomber-related.

With the start of the regular season just weeks away, training camps across the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League officially opened over the weekend. In Flin Flon, nearly 60 hopefuls took to the ice at the Whitney Forum over three days.