Below are the recipients of the fall activity sportsmanship awards: SOCCER 3A Boys Osler Valley Christian Academy 3A Girls Outlook LCBI 4A Boys Not Awarded 4A Girls Yorkton Sacred Heart 5A Boys Swift Current 5A Girls Yorkton Regional
VOLLEYBALL 1A Boys Englefeld 2A Boys Hepburn 3A Boys Assiniboia 4A Boys North Battleford JP II 5A Boys Estevan
VOLLEYBALL 1A Girls Lampman 2A Girls St. Walburg 3A Girls Carnduff 4A Girls North Battleford JP II 5A Girls Estevan
Congratulations to the John Paul II Collegiate Boys and Girls Volleyball teams for winning the
@SaskMilk Sportsmanship Awards at the 4A Provincial Championships. Thanks to the coaches for their commitment to providing educational athletics to our student-athletes!
Congratulations to the St. Walburg Girls Volleyball team on achieving the Blue Banner at the 2A Provincial Championship! Thank you to Coaches Bartee and Wankel for their commitment to student-athletes and to @SaskMilk for their support of High School Athletics in SK!
Congratulations to Englefeld School for winning the 2022 Sportsmanship banner from the 1A Boys Volleyball Championship. Thank you to Coach Ross for his commitment to providing educational athletics to the student-athletes!
Thank you to Sask Milk for their continued support of the Sportsmanship Award!
St. Walburg
Englefeld School
Congratulations to the Valley Christian Academy Boys Soccer team for winning the 2022
@SaskMilk 3A Boys Sportsmanship Award! Thanks to Coach Neudorf for his commitment to providing educational athletics to our student-athletes!
Valley Christian Academy
Congratulations to the Hepburn Boys Volleyball team for winning the 2022
@SaskMilk Sportsmanship Award at the 2A Provincial Championship. Thanks to Coaches Braun, Ebach and Thiessen for their dedication to high school athletics.
Hepburn School
Congratulations to the LCBI Girls Soccer team for winning the 2022
@SaskMilk 3A Girls Sportsmanship Award. Thank you to Coaches Balaton and Delainey for their dedication to school sport!
Lutheran Christian Bible Institute
Congratulations to the Lampman Girls Volleyball team for capturing the 2023 Sportsmanship award at the 1A Girls Provincial Volleyball Championship. Thanks to coach Czerwonka for her commitment to the student-athletes at Lampman School!
Lampman School
Congratulations to the Carnduff Girls Volleyball team for capturing the Sportsmanship award at the 3A Girls Provincial Championship! Thanks to Coach Nichols for his commitment to High School Athletics.
Senior A at Holland College (EST) 5:00pm Sr A Women Gold 7:00pm Sr A Men Gold
Tuesday, February 14 Senior AA at Holland College 1:00pm Sr AA Women Bronze 3:00pm Sr AA Men Bronze 5:00pm Sr AA Women Gold 7:00pm Sr AA Men Gold
Wednesday, February 15 Senior AAA at Holland College 1:00pm Sr AAA Women Bronze 3:00pm Sr AAA Men Bronze 5:00pm Sr AAA Women Gold 7:00pm Sr AAA Men Gold
Garth Turtle held several different positions in the school sports scene on Prince Edward Island for close to 40 years. The Three Oaks Senior High School’s senior AAA girls’ basketball tournament is now known as the Garth Turtle Memorial Sweetheart basketball tournament. Turtle, a longtime organizer of the Sweetheart tournament and coach of the host Axewomen, died in September 2021. – File
SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. — Three Oaks Senior High School is honouring the memory of one of the founders of a major basketball tournament in Summerside.
The senior AAA girls’ event is now known as the Garth Turtle Memorial Sweetheart basketball tournament. The 2023 event runs Feb. 2-4.
“Garth played a big role in getting the tournament started, coached the team here and it was a very easy decision (to name it in Turtle’s memory),” said Three Oaks athletic director Joel Arsenault. “If you are going to name the tournament after somebody, he certainly had his thumb print all over everything related to the Sweetheart (tournament).”
Tournament founders
Turtle, who was teaching physical education at Three Oaks, and the late Glenn Edison, who was athletic director, came up with the idea of the Sweetheart tournament in the early 1980s.
Turtle, who died in September 2021, also served as athletic director at Three Oaks for 10 years and was a longtime coach of the Three Oaks senior AAA girls’ basketball team, including several years after his retirement.
“If you are going to name the tournament after somebody, he certainly had his thumb print all over everything related to the Sweetheart (tournament).” – Joel Arsenault
Overall, he was involved in school sports on P.E.I. for approximately 40 years as a teacher, athletic director, official and administrator with the P.E.I. School Athletic Association (PEISAA).
Turtle’s legacy is also visible in the Three Oaks gymnasium. One of Turtle’s most-used phrases he said to students – “Make good decisions” – is now visible on the gymnasium floor.
“It was like his trademark saying,” said Arsenault. “It’s stencilled in front of the home team’s bench, where he used to stand coaching.”
One of Garth Turtle’s most-used sayings with students was “Make good decisions.” That phrase has been stencilled on the gym floor of the Three Oaks Senior High School gymnasium, where Turtle used to stand coaching basketball. – Joel Arsenault/Special to SaltWire Network
Field for 2023
The 12-team tournament features six P.E.I. teams, five from Nova Scotia and one from New Brunswick.
This marks the first Sweetheart tournament in three years as the 2021 and 2022 events were cancelled because of COVID-19.
“It’s really nice to have it back,” said Arsenault, who noted this will mark the first time the Grade 12 players on the host Axewomen have an opportunity to play in a home basketball tournament at the high school level.
One of those players is Avery Kerwin, a senior point guard. “I’ve been watching this tournament since I’ve been super young,” said Kerwin, the 17-year-old daughter of Ryan and Tammy Kerwin of Summerside. “My mom always took me to watch, and now that I get to play in one, I’m super excited.
“This is kind of such a TOSH thing to play in. I’m stoked that in my final year I’m able to participate in it.”
This is the championship banner that will be presented to the winning team of the 2023 Garth Turtle Memorial Sweetheart basketball tournament. Play in the 12-team event begins on Feb. 2 and runs through until Feb. 4 in Summerside. – Joel Arsenault/Special to SaltWire Network
Played for Turtle
Kerwin said it means a lot to have the opportunity to play in the first Sweetheart tournament that carries Turtle’s name. Turtle coached this year’s Three Oaks senior players in their Grade 10 years.
Kerwin remembers Turtle bringing a lot of energy to the gym.
“We got a chance to know him a little,” said Kerwin. “It is nice that this tournament is a legacy for him because he had been coaching the team for so long and has been probably at every Sweetheart tournament there has been (before this year).
“Now that we finally get the tournament back, it’s a nice way to honour him.”
At a glance
A look at the Garth Turtle Memorial Sweetheart basketball tournament, hosted by Three Oaks Senior High School in Summerside:
Teams
Pool A – Three Oaks, Park View, Westisle.
Pool B – Bluefield, Halifax West, Harrison Trimble.
Pool C – Charlottetown Rural, Amherst, Avon View.
Pool D – Colonel Gray, Montague, Bayview.
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Schedule
(Location in parenthesis)
Feb. 2
5:30 p.m. – Westisle vs. Three Oaks (Three Oaks); Montague vs. Colonel Gray (Montague).
Feb. 3
12:45 p.m. – Bluefield vs. Halifax West (Three Oaks); Amherst vs. Charlottetown Rural (Athena).
2:30 p.m. – Westisle vs. Park View (Three Oaks); Bayview vs. Colonel Gray (Athena).
4:10 p.m. – Three-point shooting competition.
5 p.m. – Avon View vs. Charlottetown Rural (Three Oaks); Bluefield vs. Harrison Trimble (Athena)
6:45 p.m. – Park View vs. Three Oaks (Three Oaks); Montague vs. Bayview (Athena).
8:30 p.m. – Halifax West vs. Harrison Trimble (Three Oaks); Avon View vs. Amherst (Athena).
Feb. 4
8:45 a.m. – Third-place team in Pool A vs. third-place team in Pool D (Three Oaks); third-place team in Pool B vs. third-place team in Pool C (Athena).
10:30 a.m. – Semifinals: first-place team in Pool A vs. first-place team in Pool D (Three Oaks); first-place team in Pool B vs. first-place team in Pool C (Athena).
12:15 p.m. – Second-place team in Pool A vs. second-place team in Pool D (Three Oaks); second-place team in Pool B vs. second-place team in Pool C (Athena).
2:30 p.m. – Championship game: winners of semifinal games.
Congratulations to Halifax West who captured the Garth Turtle Memorial Sweetheart Tournament Banner on Saturday.
Kristen Turtle, second left, presented the championship banner for the Garth Turtle Memorial Sweetheart basketball tournament to the captains of the Halifax West Warriors, from left, Emma Cameron, tournament most valuable player Mya Cameron and Jayah Sapp. Halifax West defeated Parkview Educational Centre 81-44 in an all-Nova Scotia final of the senior AAA girls’ event in Summerside on Feb. 4. Turtle, a resident of Halifax, is the daughter of Garth Turtle and a former basketball player at host Three Oaks Senior High School. – Jason Simmonds/SaltWire Network
SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. — The Halifax West Warriors proved to be the class of the 2023 Garth Turtle Memorial Sweetheart basketball tournament, hosted by Three Oaks Senior High School in Summerside.
The Warriors went a perfect 4-0 (won-lost) in the three-day event, including an 81-44 victory over Park View Education Centre from Bridgewater in an all-Nova Scotia final on Feb. 4.
In pool play, Halifax West defeated P.E.I.’s Bluefield Bobcats 101-31 and Harrison Trimble from Moncton, N.B., by an 82-58 score.
The Warriors’ closest game came in the semifinal when they had to overcome a 10-point deficit to get by the Charlottetown Rural Raiders 61-57.
Halifax West senior shooting guard Mya Cameron, who scored 15 points in the come-from-behind win over Charlottetown and 13 in the championship game, was named the tournament’s most valuable player.
Park View defeated two P.E.I. teams – Westisle Wolverines 106-28 and the host Three Oaks Axewomen 68-45 – in the round robin, before posting a 70-50 semifinal win over Bay View High School from Upper Tantallon, N.S.
The Axewomen went 1-2. Along with their game versus Park View, Three Oaks defeated Westisle 85-33 and dropped a 59-40 decision to Avon View High School of Windsor, N.S., in a placement game.
Awards
Here are the Garth Turtle Memorial Sweetheart basketball tournament awards:
Three-Point Shooting Contest Winner
Natalie Starrat, Avon View.
All-Stars
Menna McCabe, Charlottetown Rural.
Jordin Parsons, Park View.
Sara Whynacht, Park View.
Emma Cameron, Halifax West.
Most Valuable Player
Mya Cameron, Halifax West.
Turtle’s daughter, Halifax resident Kristen Turtle, presented the championship banner on behalf of the Turtle family.
Garth Turtle, one of the Sweetheart tournament’s founders, held several positions in the P.E.I. school sport scene for close to 40 years. He served as Three Oaks athletic director for 10 years and was a longtime coach of the Three Oaks senior AAA girls’ basketball team, including several years after his retirement.
This year marked the first Sweetheart tournament since 2020 as the 2021 and 2022 events had to be postponed because of COVID-19. A total of 10 teams participated after two teams withdrew due to the weather.
A friendly reminder that the registration deadline for the 2023 BCSS E-Sports Spring Season is coming up on February 10. We are excited to announce that Super Smash Bros has now been added to the game lineup!
