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Badminton results

Sacred Heart High School (SHHS) and the Yorkton Regional High School YRHS co-hosted the York City Senior Badminton tournament. The tournament featured many great matches with a lot of serious competition. The results were as follows.
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SACRED HEART HIGH SCHOOL (SHHS) and the Yorkton Regional High School (YRHS) recently co-hosted their annual joint senior badminton tournament. Both coaches, Jim Grela at SHHS and Shawn Redmond at YRHS, said the event ran smoothly with some top calibre competition taking place at both school. The tournament saw an high interest in the sport this year and needed to conduct qualifying matches to determine their teams. Schools could enter five teams of eight players in the tournament, including boys and girls singles teams, boys and girls doubles teams and mixed doubles teams. Pictured above Anthony Fetsch (l) sets to return a volley while team mate Dylan Johnson (r) follows the action.

Sacred Heart High School (SHHS) and the Yorkton Regional High School YRHS co-hosted the York City Senior Badminton tournament. The tournament featured many great matches with a lot of serious competition. The results were as follows.

In boys' singles placing first in their pools were Darren Tillman from YRHS and Casey Maydonick from Canora, each receiving a bye.

Facing off in the quarter finals were Caleb Friedrick from YRHS, Derrick Schwartz from Kamsack, Colin Shewchuk from SHHS and Chris Secundiak from Sturgis.

Both teams from the YRHS, Tillman and Frederick, faced off in the semi-finals while Secundiak of Sturgis took on Maydonick of Canora.

Tillman and Secundiak advanced to the final match where Tillman defeated Secundiak to win the gold medal.

In girls' singles placing first in their pools and earning a bye were Brittany Brenzen from YRHS and Kelsey Schultz of Melville.

Facing off in Quarter-finals was Robina Wapash from Pelly, Rita Fetsch and Morgan Shymanski from SHHS and Jodi Inglish from YRHS.

Fetsch defeated Wapash while Inglish defeated Shymanski. The quarter final finish had Brenzen playing Fetsch and Inglish playing Schultz in the semis. Brenzen and Schultz advanced to the final where Brenzen claimed the gold while Schultz won the silver medal.

In mixed doubles, placing first in their pools were Emily Kruger and Preston Liebrecht and Justin Guy and Riana Skikewich, both teams from SHHS, giving them a bye into the playoffs.

Squaring off in the first round were Pelly versus Taylor Irwin and Cassandra Sullivan from Melville and Bo Carasson and Breanna Melanchenko from YRHS versus Sturgis.

In the semi finals Sturgis played Guy and Skikewich with Irwin and Sullivan playing Kruger and Liebrecht.

In the final match Liebrecht and Kruger faced off against Sturgis. Kruger and Liebrecht won the gold, with Sturgis winning the silver medal.

The boy doubles saw the team of Dylan Johnson and Anthony Fetsch from SHHS finish first in their pools as well as Kamsack, both receiving a bye to the playoffs.

In the quarter finals Bernard McDonald and Jordan Chernoff of Pelly took on Sturgis. Eddie Schramm and Graham Campbell from YRHS took on Colton McLellan and Jayden Gerhardt of Melville.

Sturgis defeated Pelly to face Kamsack. Melville defeated YRHS to face SHHS.

Sturgis and Sacred Heart advanced to the finals. Fetsch and Johnson won the gold with Sturgis claiming the silver medal in a three game match.

In girls' doubles placing first in their pools and getting a bye were Emma Lockhart and Tato Crisanto from YRHS and Melville's Kelsi Rieger and Janelle Rieger.

In quarter final play Jessica Aborahamson and Sophia Alfelor of Pelly took on Brianna Ostafie and Eilish Stranaghan from SHHS.

In the other quarter final match Andrea Huang and Brandi Niebrandt from YRHS took on SHHS Katie Inglis and Allison Kruger from SHHS.

Ostafie and Stranaghan won to advance to face Lockhart and Cristano in one semi-final while Inglis and Kruger won their match to meet Rieger and Rieger in the other semi-final match.

Skikewich and Stranaghan advanced to the final against Rieger and Rieger. Melville won the gold with SHHS taking home the silver medal.