Rebels improve to 3-0 at Schwartz Classic

The Regina Rebels won a pair of games on Friday to improve to 3-0 at the Mandi Schwartz Classic women’s hockey tournament.

The midget AAA Rebels won 7-0 over the Spruce Grove Saints in their first game of the day.

Kennedy Bobyck scored twice for Regina and Chelsea Perepeluk, Mackenzie Kuffner, Kelsey Davies, Lilla Carpenter-Boesch and Santana Gravelle also scored.

Tatum Shand made 22 saves for the Rebels. Sadie Reid stopped 32 shots.

In their second game, the Rebels downed the Fraser Valley Phantoms 4-0.

Perepeluk notched two goals while Kuffner and Emilia MacDougall added singles.

Zoe Istace stopped 17 shots. Morgan Symington made 30 saves in the loss.

University of Regina Cougars runner Matt Johnson and former Cougars runner Kelly Wiebe will compete for Canada at the world crosscountry championships and the Panamerican Cross Country Cup.

Regina’s Johnson and Swift Current’s Wiebe are to travel to Barranquilla, Colombia in February for the Panamerican Cup. The worlds will be in Guiyang, China in March.

Regina’s Kail Christ placed eighth in the women’s 3,000-metre event at the World Cup long track speedskating event in Heerenveen, Netherlands on Friday.

Christ posted a time of four minutes 13.77 seconds in the race.

White City’s Marsha Hudey finished 10th in the women’s 500m and Humboldt’s William Dutton placed 15th in the men’s 500m.

Bree Crookshanks of the Regina Optimist Dolphins swim club set a provincial record in the 200-metre breaststroke at the Junior International Swim Meet in Portland, Ore., on Friday.

Crookshanks swam the race in 2:34.86, beating the old record of 2:41.83 and earning a spot in the finals on Friday night.

Crookshanks is joined at the meet by fellow Dolphins Mikayla Amundsen, Lexy King, Megan McGillivray and Brian Palaschuk.