Sports

The Lawrie Hobart Memorial Volleyball Tournament is always one of the first sporting events of the scholastic calendar year, but it meant something different this year.

It’s officially hockey season in many parts of the world where the sport reigns supreme and that includes the post-secondary ranks.

In years past, there have been girls hockey teams from Yellowknife that have travelled south to play in tournaments representing the Yk Minor Hockey Association.

The thing about triple-knockout cashspiels is that you have three chances to make the playoffs.

Movement of large impediments, windy conditions and a even a hole-in-one. It was a weekend where everything seemed to happen at the Yellowknife Golf Club.

One year ago, Team Galusha got the chance to play in the inaugural PointsBet Invitational event, a new big-money spiel hosted by Curling Canada.

It was a tale of two days at the Yellowknife Golf Club over the weekend. One day orange, one day cloudy.

The Canadian North Midnight Classic is the showpiece tournament at the Yellowknife Golf Club each year, but there’s another tournament which brings out a huge crowd to help wind things down each season.

As anyone who’s ever followed curling will know, Kerry Galusha curls out of the Yellowknife Curling Centre and has done so admirably for decades.

Grizzly camp proves popular