ESTEVAN - The Estevan Sharks water polo club is getting ready host their annual home tournament Sunday at the Estevan Leisure Centre’s swimming pool.
The tournament will begin with girls’ division games at 9 a.m. The host Sharks White team will be facing athletes from Regina, Weyburn and Saskatoon. Games are scheduled to be 15 minutes in length. The first-place game is slated for 10:30 a.m.
The next division will be the mini division with three teams from Estevan – white, blue and purple. Also competing will be teams from Weyburn and Regina.
Again, the games will be 15 minutes in length. The division is scheduled to start at 10:45 a.m. and the last game is set to start at 2:15 p.m.
The final division will be the boys. It will start at 2:30 p.m. A bronze medal game is scheduled for 5 p.m. and the gold medal game is to start at 5:15 p.m. The host Sharks white will face teams from Regina and Weyburn.
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The Sharks U15 and open players competed in their first tournament of the year at the Lawson Aquatic Centre in Regina on Oct. 15 and 16.
The U15s played with and against other athletes from Weyburn, Regina and Saskatoon on Oct. 15. The U15 girls were coached by Neal Linthicum and joined by two Weyburn players to round out their team. They played four hard and fast-paced games, coming out with one win.
Mahlyn Bomberak emerged with eight goals, Ryan Hoeving had seven, Marlow Molstad scored twice in her first U15 tournament, and Jennika Linthicum came out with one goal. Weyburn players Maria Zaika and Sawyer Tollefson were vital players but did not score.
Keegan Mennie-Kindlein and Malcolm Sherling joined the Regina Armada White team. They played four times but missed out on a win at this tournament. Mennie-Kindlein came out with four goals and Sherling tried hard in his first bantam tournament and notched one goal.
The following day, Bomberak jumped back in the pool to swim for the Regina Armada Black in the open division, which is for individuals older than 15, and she scored one more goal in this division during her two games. Meenie-Kindlein swam with the open boys for three games and his team had tied two of those games.
"The Estevan Sharks are very proud of all our players that attended the first Community League tournament of the season,” the club said in a news release. “Congratulations on all that you accomplished this past weekend and wishing you all the best in the pool during this season.”
