The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are 0-2 to start a season for the first time in eight years. Former Blue Bombers quarterback Dru Brown completed 20-of-33 passes for 238 yards and a touchdown as the Ottawa RedBlacks defeated Winnipeg 23-19. Johnny Augustine and back-up quarterback Chris Streveler had short touchdown runs for the Bombers. The game was delayed for an hour due to lightning and heavy rain with 2:09 left on the clock and the Winnipeg offense on the RedBlacks 42-yard line. When play resumed and the Blue Bombers trailing by six points, Zach Collaros completed passes to Dalton Schoen and Drew Wolitarsky to take Winnipeg inside Ottawa’s seven-yard line. The Blue Bombers had three tries at the end zone, but two incompletions and a sack snuffed out the threat. Winnipeg's next game is at home Friday, June 21st against the B.C. Lions. 


The Carillon Sultans picked up their first win of the season Thursday night. Austin Friesen went the distance and struck out 12 as Carillon defeated the defending Winnipeg Senior Baseball League champion West Winnipeg A's 5-1 in Steinbach. Friesen also went 3-for-4 at the plate with two RB1. Burke Heide and Drew Heide each had two hits and drove in a run for the Sultans who have a 1-4 record and will meet the A's again next Tuesday at A.D. Penner Park.


The Manitoba Junior Baseball League leading Carillon Sultans face the defending champion St. Boniface Legionaires tonight (7 p.m.) at A. D. Penner Park. The Sultans have reached the midway point of the 2024 MJBL season in first place with a 10-2 record. The Elmwood Giants are next at 8-1 while the St. James A's are in third spot with an 8-3 record. The Giants meet the A's tonight at Optimist Park. 


The Winnipeg Goldeyes begin a nine-game homestand tonight when they meet the Sioux City Explorers at Blue Cross Park. The Fish (16-15) are fourth place in the American Association's West Division. The Goldeyes are 3.5 games back of the first place Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks. 


Wheelchair curling athletes from across Canada will meet in Boucherville, Quebec, to compete in the 2025 and 2026 Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championships. The Club de curling de Boucherville is familiar to the wheelchair curling community, having hosted national competitions in 2019, 2017, 2015 and 2014. Boucherville was also scheduled to host the 2020 championship, which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  The 2025 event will be the 18th edition of the Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship, which made its debut in 2004.

hockey_2023Raygan Kirk (left) was selected by Toronto in Monday's PWHL draft (submitted photo)

Raygan Kirk was selected in the 2024 PWHL Draft this past Monday Night in St. Paul. The Ste. Anne native will join us on Sportsbeat which airs Fridays at 5:15 p.m. on AM 1250 Radio.