Sports Looking Back: Dec. 18, 2024
ON TELEVISION
• NHL – Toronto Maple Leafs at Dallas Stars, 6:30 p.m. (SNW); Vancouver Canucks at Utah HC, 9 p.m. (SN1)
• PWHL – Toronto Sceptres at New York Sirens, 6 p.m. (TSN)
• COLLEGE BASKETBALL – Memphis at Virginia, 6 p.m. (TSN3)
• COLLEGE FOOTBALL – Boca Raton Bowl: Western Kentucky vs James Madison, 4:30 p.m. (TSN5); Art of Sport LA Bowl: Californa at UNLV, 8 p.m. (TSN5)
IN LOCAL HISTORY
• 60 YEARS AGO — Clayton Wade scored 17 points to lead the Rebels past Lawson Lords 58-56 in a Western Manitoba Amateur Basketball League game. Big Bob Cuddington scored 25 points for the Lords.
• 50 YEARS AGO — Bob Hirst scored three times to lead the Melita Bisons to a 7-5 triumph over the Pierson Bruins in a SouthWest Hockey League game.
• 40 YEARS AGO — Laura Lovett, Lorna Bollman and Cheryl Hoglander scored to give Soup Kettle Straycats a 3-1 victory over Spectrum Blazers in a Brandon Woman’s Broomball League game.
• 30 YEARS AGO — Todd Hooper had a hat trick to lead the Minnedosa Bombers to a 7-2 win over the Sioux Valley Dakotas in a North Central Hockey League game. Nathan Doe, Craig Cameron, Brad Kingdon and Perry Brykaliuk also scored for the Bombers.
• 20 YEARS AGO — Still smarting from being cut by Canada’s world junior hock- ey team on Wednesday, Wheat Kings sniper Eric Fehr fired his Western Hockey League-leading 31st goal of the season on a shorthanded break 1:56 into overtime to give Brandon a thrilling 3-2 victory over the Red Deer Rebels.
• 10 YEARS AGO — The Brandon University Bobcats men’s volleyball team got an early Christmas present as recruit James Weir came to the Wheat City and announced he’ll join the team for the second semester. The 6-foot-7 middle, who’s from Australia, doesn’t count as an international player because he was born in Saskatoon and is a Canadian citizen.
