ESTEVAN — The Estevan Sharks water polo athletes travelled to Saskatoon for a two-day provincial tournament.
In the mini (10U) age group, Estevan sent two teams to the tournament. They each played four games and then their semifinal and final games.
Each of the atom (13U) boys, bantam (15U) boys and the joint atom/bantam girls played three games in the round robin, then the semifinal game and a final.
The Sharks also had three atom/bantam level girls and one bantam level boy play for the open league tournament, resulting in two busy days for these athletes.
For the Estevan 1 mini team, Rosalie Horrocks, Elijah Vanstone and Eli Sclear scored goals over the two days. With the Estevan 2 mini team, Jaxon Reihnardt, Eoin Jones, Jaxson Ward, Laine Petterson and Eli Sclear managed to score.
The finals saw Estevan 2 playing Weyburn for the gold medal. These athletes came home with the silver medal. Estevan 1 played Regina but were out-swam and came in fourth overall for the tournament.
The atom boys team had Royce Millford and Carter Yunick competing to be top scorer, and these goals were supported by Hudson Enns, Carter Smelt and Samual Boal.
The atom/bantam girls team was joined by the Weyburn Hurricanes athletes for this tournament. Swimmers Mahlyn Bomberak, Jennika Linthicum, Ryan Hoeving and Jillian Rosengren managed to score for the Sharks. Estevan/Weyburn met Regina in the final and swam, passed and fought hard, and came home with the silver medal. Bomberak, Linthicum and Hoeving also came home with bronze medals from the open women’s team.
The bantam boys joined with one of the Regina teams, with Malcolm Sherling, Keegan Meenie-Kindlein and Tyler Gillies scoring a point each. In the finals, the two Regina teams met. Gillies and Sherling came home with a silver medal in the finals and their teammate Meenie-Kindlein also came home with a gold medal from competing with the open men’s team.
