Sports

Moose Jaw’s newest indoor sports facility, the Golden Ticket Sports Centre, is holding their formal public opening Saturday evening from 6 - 10 pm and everyone is invited to come and check out the new facility.

All you need is your own basketball, clean indoor court shoes plus a non-perishable food item for the Food Bank and you are welcome to tryout the new maple hardwood floor and shoot some hoops.

With the weather nice and turkey still to wear off from Easter former MJ Independent editor Nick Murray continues his journey playing on ranking the outdoor basketball courts Moose Jaw has to offer.

Stellar play from Warriors goaltender Boston Bilous has backstopped the Warriors to not only two weekend victories but earned the netminder WHL Goaltender Of Week honours as the Eastern Division kicked off regular season play on the weekend.

With no positive COVID - 19 tests the Moose Jaw Warriors and other teams have been given the OK to commence on-ice practices as the 24 game regular season is set to get underway on March 12th.

The regular season schedule for the WHL’s Eastern Division’s teams - including the Moose Jaw Warriors - has been released.

The WHL has announced their East Division’s return to play with all regular season games played in a Regina based hub.

The WHL has announced the start date of the regular season for its US Division. There is no word as to a confirmed start date and schedule for the Moose Jaw Warriors 2020-2021 regular season.

Former Moose Jaw Warrior’s head coach Mike Babcock is returning to hockey as an on air analyst with NBC.

The WHL has announced that they will have a 24 game regular season - the only question is now when will the final approval be given to start the season.

A Moose Jaw Mavericks product Jasmine Kohl scored her first two goals this past Sunday as a member of the Prince Albert Northern Bears U18 AAA squad.

After a trio of years with a large number of players the Moose Jaw Mavericks program found itself with player shortages this year in the bantam and midget levels. The program then took a Milestone solution.

It was a night where the effort was there but nothing seemed to click for the Moose Jaw Bantam A Mavericks as they suffered their first loss of the season to the Weyburn Creekside Car Wash Gold Wings on Saturday evening.

As part of our sudden death commitment to do more female hockey we took the 90 minute drive to Weyburn.

Despite a flat start the Moose Jaw Bantam A Mavericks kept their undefeated streak going in a win against the Weyburn Gold Wings.

Despite being up 3 - 1 at the second intermission the Moose Jaw Bantam A Mavericks had to settle for a 3 - 3 tie against the Regina Rebels in Saskatchewan Female Hockey League action on Sunday.

Despite being outshot 2 -1 and running into penalty problems in the third period the Moose Jaw Bantam A Mavericks managed to defeat the Regina Rebels at their first home game of the season,

It may not have been the prettiest affair but the Moose Jaw Bantam A Mavericks managed to pull off their first win of the season.