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Team SE brings home 10 gold from Winter Games

Team Southeast earned a total of 33 medals from the Saskatchewan Winter Games, including 10 golds, with the games wrapping up on Saturday after starting up on Feb. 18 in North Battleford.

Team Southeast earned a total of 33 medals from the Saskatchewan Winter Games, including 10 golds, with the games wrapping up on Saturday after starting up on Feb. 18 in North Battleford. As a team, Southeast placed eighth with 10 gold medals, eight silver and 15 bronze medals.

The gold medals included two team golds, the female bowling team and the female judo team. Two individual judo athletes earned gold, including Paige Irwin in the 46kg female category, Christina Stringer in the judo skills competition for 53kg weight category.

Lauren Kohl earned gold for target shooting in the individual air pistol category and silver for the super final in air pistol, and two weightlifters earned gold, Jorja Bendtsen in the 69kg female category, and Karli Colpitts in the 75kg female category.

Three female members of the wrestling team also earned gold, including Ember Schira in the 43-47kg category, Allie Gawryluik in the 62kg category, and Makena Ricard in the 67kg category.

In the silver medal category, the Southeast girls hockey team won silver after playing Prairie Central in the gold medal game and losing 3-1.

Sam Penkala won two silver medals in alpine skiing, one in under-14 slalom and the other in under-14 for ski cross.

Aerial Roberts won an individual female silver for Special Olympics, Tyler Colpitts won silver for 69kg in weightlifting, Aaron Chapman won for 85kg weightlifting, and Eric Fleming won in wrestling in the 60kg category.

Bronze medal winners included four team winners: the Special Olympics bowling team, the synchronized swimming team, table tennis cadet female team and table tennis junior female team.

An individual member of the Special Olympics bowling team, David Carr, won bronze, and in alpine skiing, Mekel Frombach won bronze for the female under-14 slalom event.

Three members of the judo team won bronze, including Joey Irwin in the 40kg category, Trysten Reder in the 53kg category, and Ashton Debruyne in the 55kg category. Synchro swimmer Hannah Mantei won bronze in the solo co-ed category, Jean Rose Be won in the table tennis junior female category, Victoria Stewart won in the target shooting event for air rifle open female, Lauren Kohl and Victoria Stewart won for air pistol mixed, Taris Rae won in weightlifting in the 53kg category, and male wrestler Logan Bettes won in the 80kg category.

A number of the teams placed just out of the medals in fourth, including the boys hockey team, gymnastics team, speed-skating relay for 2000 meters, table tennis junior female team and junior male team, and the wrestling dual competition mixed.

The female curling team from Weyburn, skipped by Emily Haupstein, finished in fifth, and the male curling team from Weyburn, skipped by Landon Field, finished in seventh.