SCHEDULE FOR THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23RD
The Canadian Football League is off until tomorrow when Week 21 of the regular-season starts with 2 games. The Saskatchewan Roughriders are idle until Saturday when they host the B-C Lions to close out the campaign. Kickoff time from Regina is 5 p.m. The Green and White have 12 wins, 5 losses for 24 points…good for 1st place in the West Division. B-C has 10 wins, 7 losses for 20 points…tied for 2nd place in the West.
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Saskatoon High School Football League—3 games at S-M-F Field:
Bedford Road vs Mount Royal—3 p.m.
Holy Cross vs Centennial—5:15 p.m.
St. Joseph vs Walter Murray—7:30 p.m.
Saskatoon High School Senior Girls Volleyball League:
Walter Murray vs Aden Bowman—6:30 p.m.
Saskatoon High School Senior Boys Volleyball League—7 games:
Centennial vs Bethlehem—6:30 p.m.
St Joseph vs Holy Cross—6:30 p.m.
Bethlehem vs S-C-S—7:30 p.m.
Holy Cross vs Tommy Douglas—7:30 p.m.
Walter Murray vs Aden Bowman—7:30 p.m.
Centennial vs S-C-S—8:30 p.m.
St Joseph vs Tommy Douglas—8:30 p.m.
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National Football League—Week 8 begins:
Minnesota Vikings at Los Angeles Chargers—6:15 p.m.
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The Prairie Football Conference is off until Sunday when the final is set to be played, as follows…
Saskatoon Hilltops at Regina Thunder—1 p.m.
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The Canada West University Football Conference is idle until tomorrow when Week 8 of the season begins with U-B-C at Regina. The Saskatchewan Huskies are off until Saturday when they are home against the Manitoba Bisons. Kickoff time is 2 p.m. at Griffiths Stadium. The Dogs have 6 wins, 1 loss for 12 points…tied for 1st place. Manitoba has 4 wins, 3 losses for 8 points…good for 3rd place.
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The Western Hockey League is idle today and returns tomorrow, including the Saskatoon Blades when they open their six-game U-S Division road trip at the Everett Silvertips. CJWW’s broadcast starts at 7:45 p.m. with play-by-play at 8:05 p.m. The Bridge City Bunch have 9 wins, 3 losses, 0 extra time losses for 18 points…tied for 1st place in the Eastern Conference. Everett has 9 wins, 0 losses, 1 extra time loss for 19 points…good for 1st place in the Western Conference. The Blue and Gold’s next home game isn’t until Friday, November 7th when they entertain the Moose Jaw Warriors. Game time is 7 p.m. at SaskTel Centre.
The Prince Albert Raiders are off until tomorrow when they welcome the Swift Current Broncos. Game time is 7 p.m. at the Art Hauser Centre. P-A has 7 wins, 0 losses, 2 extra time losses for 16 points…good for 3rd place in the Eastern Conference.
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Prairie Junior Hockey League:
Saskatoon Royals at Prince Albert Timberjaks—7:30 p.m.
Richardson Pioneer Southern Rebels at Regina Capitals—7:30 p.m.
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Saskatchewan Male Under-18 Triple-A Hockey League:
Saskatoon Blazers at Regina Pat Canadians—8 p.m.
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National Hockey League—12 games:
Chicago Blackhawks at Tampa Bay Lightning—4:45 p.m.
Anaheim Ducks at Boston Bruins—5 p.m.
Philadelphia Flyers at Ottawa Senators—5 p.m.
Pittsburgh Penguins at Florida Panthers—5 p.m.
Detroit Red Wings at New York Islanders—5 p.m.
San Jose Sharks at New York Rangers—5 p.m.
Utah Mammoth at St. Louis Blues—6 p.m.
Vancouver Canucks at Nashville Predators—6 p.m.
Seattle Kraken at Winnipeg Jets—6 p.m.
Los Angeles Kings at Dallas Stars—7 p.m.
Carolina Hurricanes at Colorado Avalanche—7 p.m.
Montreal Canadiens at Edmonton Oilers—7 p.m.
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On the pebbled ice:
The Pan-Continental Curling Championships continue today and run through Sunday in Virginia, Minnesota. Both the women’s and men’s divisions feature eight national representatives, playing round-robin plus playoff formats, vying for spots for their countries into the respective World Championships next spring. Canada is represented by the Rachel Homan foursome from Ottawa in the women’s competition while Brad Jacobs’ Calgary quartet is on the men’s side.
Canada’s women are already guaranteed a spot in the Worlds next March in Calgary. They have 2 wins, 1 loss…tied for 3rd place. On today’s schedule for the Homan squad…
Canada vs Korea—9 a.m.
Canada vs. China—7 p.m.
Canada’s men still need to lock down a spot into the Worlds next spring in Ogden, Utah. The Jacobs team has 4 wins, 0 losses…tied for 1st place. On their schedule today…
Canada vs Australia—2 p.m.
The Canadian Curling Pre-Trials continue today and run through Sunday in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. There are eight teams in both the women’s and men’s divisions, playing a round-robin plus playoffs format, with each gender division winner advancing to the Canadian Curling Trials next month in Halifax. The winners of that event will represent Canada at the Winter Olympics in Italy in February. Among the women’s teams taking part are foursomes skipped by Ashley Thevenot and Nancy Martin – both from Martensville. The Thevenot quartet has 2 wins, 3 losses…tied for 4th place. The Martin squad has 1 win, 4 losses… good for 8th place. There are no Saskatchewan teams in the men’s draw. There are draws today at 6 and 11 a.m. plus 4 p.m. Among the 6 a.m. games…
Ashley Thevenot, Martensville vs Myla Plett, Edmonton
Nancy Martin, Martensville vs Krista Scharf, Thunder Bay
Among the 4 p.m. games…
Ashley Thevenot, Martensville vs Krista Scharf, Thunder Bay
Nancy Martin, Martensville vs Myla Plett, Edmonton
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The Major League Baseball playoffs are idle until tomorrow when the World Series begins, as follows…
Toronto Blue Jays vs Los Angeles Dodgers—6 p.m. at Toronto
(Opening game of best-of-seven series)
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