ESTEVAN - Seven members of the Estevan Sharks water polo athletes travelled to Regina to compete at the second Community League bantam and open tournaments of the season on the weekend.
Both the girls and the boys joined with the Weyburn Hurricanes athletes to have enough players to field a team.
The tournament started with the girls’ team in the water for their first of five games of the tournament. Each game was 13 minutes in length, and the athletes swim, chase and throw the ball in hopes of scoring.
The bantam girls came out of the tournament with a 1-2-2 record.
The bantam boys team also played five times. They were unable to come away with a win but according to coach Jake Morris, they did improve significantly in their skill level by the final game of the day.
Five games wasn’t enough for athlete Keegan Mennie-Kindlein, who hopped back in the pool for the open tournament with the Regina Armada Orange. The athletes played five games with some being played on Saturday evening and the remaining occurring on Sunday morning. Mennie-Kindlein spent some time in goal and played hard but the team went winless.
Mahlyn Bomberak and Jennika Linthicum returned to the pool on Sunday morning and joined the Armada Black for five more games in which the athletes swam hard to win three of their games.
