Expect bandwagon to fill for Huskies football

Noah Zerr gets family time with the Hardy Cup.

If you have the urge to jump on the bandwagon for the University of Saskatchewan Huskies Football team, follow the old Nike slogan and “just do it.”

For the first time since 2006, the Huskies (8-1 overall) will play in the U Sports championship game – the Vanier Cup. They will take on the University of Western Ontario Mustangs (9-1 overall) in the U Sports title game on Saturday at Stade Telus – Universite Laval in Quebec City, Quebec (12 p.m. Saskatchewan time, CBC TV).

As the week goes and the time for the championship clash nears, you can expect more and more people in Saskatoon and likely the province of Saskatchewan will jump on the Huskies bandwagon.

They should jump on the Huskies bandwagon, and that goes for anyone that wants to back the Dogs.

The players and coaches on the team are incredibly likeable.

The team has been building to this moment with a journey that included winning the Hardy Cup as Canada West Conference champions in 2018 as well as this season.

Plus, the nostalgia factor will come into play when it comes to jumping on the bandwagon. The Huskies have made nine previous trips to the Vanier Cup and come out the victors on three occasions in 1990, 1996 and 1998.

Adam Machart has piled up big yards at running back.

Current Huskies head coach Scott Flory and current defensive co-ordinator Warren Muzika were players at right tackle and linebacker respectively on the Huskies 1998 Vanier Cup winner.

As all nine of those championship appearances were shown on national television and the Huskies made other regular national TV appearances during the 1990s and 2000s, a lot of people carry warm memories from those years.

Legendary Huskies head coach Brian Towriss oversaw all of those runs to appearing in the Vanier Cup championship game before retiring after the 2016 season. He became the all-time leader in U Sports head coaching victories at 196 in both regular season and post-season play.

Towriss found his way to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. He is accompanying the current Huskies on the road in the post-season.

Towriss is one of the great storytellers you will find anywhere at any level of sports. During down moments, it would be a great experience for any current players to squeeze in a visit with Towriss to hear those tales.

There have been a number of opportunities to hear those old stories too.

After Huskies beat the University de Montreal Carabins in the Uteck Bowl last Saturday in Montreal, Quebec, the team elected to stay in the province. They bussed to Quebec City the next day to being preparing for the Vanier Cup.

Colton Klassen has been a heart and soul player for the Huskies.

The current players are a great bunch. They are group that is easy to get behind.

While the 2020 Canada West season and the Vanier Cup was cancelled due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that has gripped the world, a large number of players that were on the roster in 2019 returned to the Huskies this season. That development is a testament to how good the culture is on the squad.

The Huskies will try to help seven players in their fifth and final seasons of eligibility graduate as U Sports national champions in Colton Klassen, Kyle Newton, Carter Dahl, Finley Easton, Clovis Lumeka, Nick Summach and Yol Piok.

Klassen is arguably the best known of the group. The 2020 CFL Draft selection of the Montreal Alouettes is the Huskies star utility player and a three time Canada West all-star.

Back on October 26, 2019, Klassen went down with a gruesome dislocated right ankle near the end of the first quarter in a 22-9 victory over the University of Alberta Golden Bears.

He hit the comeback trail and recovered to the point the Alouettes were comfortable with selecting him in the eighth round and 69^th overall in the CFL Draft held on April 30, 2020.

Piok has become a mental health advocate after coming forward with his own story of his battles with mental health. Behind the scenes, the Regina product has made a big positive impact off the field.

Fans at cheer on the Huskies at the Hardy Cup.

When it comes to excitement on the field, the Huskies most exciting player is arguably star quarterback Mason Nyhus. The fourth-year signal caller plays in the gun slinging mold of Green Bay Packers legend Brett Favre of the NFL.

Nyhus puts up numbers and wins. His decision making has also been top notch this season, and he has been calculated when it comes to taking chances to win games.

Star running back Adam Machart has solidified himself as one of the Huskies all-time greats. He can run with speed, finesse and power and catch passes out of the backfield like a standout receiver.

He is also one of the game’s top true gentlemen.

Sure handed receiver Sam Baker might be the most consistent pass catcher in U Sports. When the stakes get higher, he becomes a bigger playmaker.

Throughout their history, the Huskies have been known for their great offensive lines, and the U of S can rightfully be dubbed “O-line U.”

Riley Pickett has piled up the sacks this season.

This year’s starting line has been stellar once again with Summach at right tackle, Connor Berglof at right guard, Oluwayombo Olabimtan at centre, Derek Beaubien at left guard and Noah Zerr at left tackle.

Of course, the guys on the offensive line are some of the most down to earth persons you will meet anywhere.

On defensive, defensive end Riley Pickett likely received some extra notoriety in being named the defensive player of the game in the Uteck Bowl recording two sacks and six total tackles. Pickett was the target of boos and taunts from the Carabins faithful in Montreal, and he took it all in stride.

Always an upbeat and highly positive person off the field, Pickett knows that boos in opposing team stadiums are as good as cheers when he is at home and also come as a sign he is playing well. He doesn’t get phased by whatever the game throws at him.

Nathan Cherry had a strong season playing the other defensive end spot for the Huskies to form a great pass rushing duo with Pickett.

At linebacker, the Huskies are so deep you could argue they have nine guys who could be starters. Lumeka and Nick Wiebe are viewed as arguably the biggest playmakers.

Mason Nyhus is the Huskies gunslinger at quarterback.

Sophomore outside linebacker Ramsey Derbas has already been entrusted to be a team captain, which shows the leadership ability he has at a young age.

At defensive back, Charlie Ringland goes about the game in a quiet businesslike fashion, and he has the ability to creep up and play in the box as well as cover top receivers. He has great politeness off the field too.

Place kicker and punter David Solie might be the most easy going player on the team. He doesn’t get rattled in crazy situations or when the pressure is on.

Overall, the players, coaches and staff of the Huskies football team are all the perfect persons you would want representing the U of S, Saskatoon as a city and Saskatchewan as a province.

They allow alums of the program and fans to live out great moments in the present and remember great moments of the past.

At the moment, it feels like everything with the Huskies experience of being the Vanier Cup is new again, because it has been so long since the program has been in this game and even longer since the Dogs have won that contest.

The Huskies have a group that deserves to be cheered on.

QB Mason Nyhus (#8) makes a young fan’s day after a win.

If they can win this last game and go all the way, you likely won’t be able to find the words to describe how special that would be.

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Huskies’ Lokombo named U Sports top defensive player

Nelson Lokombo (#25) is the U Sports defensive player of the year.

    Nelson Lokombo took home a U Sports honour no University of Saskatchewan Huskies football player had received in 21 years.

    On Thursday at the annual Vanier Cup gala held in Quebec City, Quebec, U Sports handed out its national awards and all-Canadian honours for football. Lokombo, who is a third year defensive back for the Huskies, was named the winner of the Presidents’ Trophy as the U Sports defensive player of the year.

    Lokombo topped the Huskies with four interceptions, and he returned two of those interceptions for touchdowns during the regular season.

    The Abbotsford, B.C., product posted 23.5 total tackles, 2.5 sacks and four pass breakups during the regular campaign as well.

    Lokombo was the first Huskies player to win the Presidents’ Trophy since current defensive coordinator Warren Muzika claimed that honour as a Huskies linebacker in 1998. Muzika was playing in his final season with the Huskies in 1998 and helped them win the Vanier Cup as U Sports national champions with a 24-17 victory over the Concordia University Stingers.

    On top of winning the Presidents’ Trophy, Lokombo was named a U Sports first team all-Canadian all-star. He was one of five Huskies players named first team all-Canadian all-stars.
    The Huskies first team all-Canadian all-stars included running back Adam Machart, left guard Mattland Riley, centre Connor Berglof and defensive tackle Evan Machibroda.

Nelson Lokombo, right, returns an interception for a touchdown.

    Running behind an offensive line that contained Riley and Berglof, Machart carried the ball 156 times for 1,334 yards and eight touchdowns during the regular season. He also hauled in 20 passes for 204 yards and three touchdowns through the air.

    His total of 1,334 yards rushing and 1,538 all-purpose yards are new Huskies team records for one regular season. Machart led U Sports in rushing.

    Machibroda, who was playing out his final season of U Sports eligibility, piled up 22 total tackles, five sacks, two forced fumbles and one fumble recovery during the regular season.

    The Huskies finished second in the regular season standings of the Canada West Conference with a 5-3 mark and fell to the University of Calgary Dinos 29-4 in the Canada West final – the Hardy Cup.

    Fifth-year quarterback and U Sports all-time great Chris Merchant of the University of Western Ontario Mustangs won the Hec Crighton Trophy as the most outstanding player in U Sports. Merchant beat out Machart for that honour.

    McGill University defensive tackle Andrew Seinet-Spaulding claimed the J.P. Metras Trophy as the most outstanding down lineman. Seinet-Spaulding beat out Machibroda for that award.

    Concordia University Stingers receiver Jeremy Murphy was named the winner of the Peter Gorman Trophy as the top rookie in U Sports. He beat out Huskies linebacker Ramsey Derbas for that honour.

Nelson Lokombo, right, secures one of his four interceptions this season.

    York University Lions free safety Jacob Janke captured the Russ Jackson Award for excellence in football, academics and citizenship in U Sports.

    Mustangs head coach Greg Marshall took the Frank Tindall Trophy as the U Sports coach of the year. Marshall beat out Huskies head coach Scott Flory for that award.

    Veteran University of Regina Rams defensive line coach Greg Nesbitt took the Gino Fracas Award as the volunteer coach of the year for U Sports. Nesbitt has been on the Rams staff for a lengthy stretch of time.

    The U Sports football season concludes on Saturday, when the Dinos (9-2 overall) face the University of Montreal Carabins (9-2 overall) in the Vanier Cup at the Universite Laval in Quebec City.

Hilltops’ “Sarge” still should have been CJFL coach of the year

Tom Sargeant was passed over for CJFL coach of the year.

    Saskatoon Hilltops head coach Tom Sargeant will take CJFL champions over individual honours any day.

    Last Saturday, the Hilltops won their sixth straight CJFL championship downing the host Langley Rams 11-6 in the CJFL title game – the Canadian Bowl. The Hilltops have won nine of the last 10 CJFL crowns and have been CJFL champions 22 times.

    While the Hilltops have piled up all these titles, Sargeant, who has been the team’s head coach since 1998, continually gets shutout in winning the CJFL coach of the year award.

    At the CJFL awards banquet last Friday in Langley, the CJFL coach of the year award was given to Rams head coach Howie Zaron. The Rams finished the 2019 campaign with a 12-1 overall record after falling to the Hilltops in the Canadian Bowl.

    Sargeant claimed CJFL coach of the year honours on two occasions in 2000 and 2003.

    It has to be noted the CJFL looks really bad not naming Sargeant the coach of the year on the national level even just once during the Hilltops current run of winning nine of the last 10 CJFL titles.

    Last year, there was a huge opportunity to correct that oversight as the Hilltops won the Canadian Bowl posting a perfect 11-0 record. They were so dominant in the 2018 campaign they trailed on the scoreboard for a total of just 81 seconds in all their games.

    This season, the Hilltops went through a huge amount of turnover in starters on both offence and defence. They needed fourth quarter comebacks to pull out victory in a couple of contest.

    Incredibly, the Hilltops put together another perfect season with a 12-0 record. Sargeant picked up his 200^th career victory in Week 2 of the season, and he later became the all-time wins leader in Canadian amateur post-secondary football.

    Sargeant currently has a career 210-30-2 in the CJFL’s regular season and post-season.

    If Sargeant wasn’t have to claim CJFL coach of the year honours after either of those campaigns, one has to wonder if he will ever receive that honour again.

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“Two claps and a Ric Flair” – Filteau’s memory lives on with Huskies

Justin Filteau in action with the Huskies in 2016.

    It is a cheer that has extra meaning with the University of Saskatchewan Huskies football team.

    When they are on the field for practice and during games, someone will yell, “Give me two claps and a Ric Flair.”

    The players on the field clap their hands twice and follow that up with a loud, “Woo!”

    The cheer was brought to the team by linebacker Justin Filteau in 2015, when he came over to the Huskies from the Saskatoon Hilltops, who are a powerhouse in the Canadian Junior Football League.

    Filteau did that cheer in Saskatchewan’s judo scene, which he was heavily involved in.

    Filteau played for the Huskies in 2015 and 2016 and helped the coaching staff in 2017, when he suffered a season ending injury in training camp tearing his pectoral muscle. He departed from the team after the 2017 campaign.

Justin Filteau pursues a play in 2016.

    On June 1 of this year, Filteau died tragically in a plane crash at age 26.

    The Huskies have continued doing the Ric Flair cheer this season, and its extra meaning isn’t lost on anyone with the team.

    “It is fun,” said fourth-year utility offensive star Colton Klassen. “It gets the guys going.

    “That is the main reason we do it. Justin used to love to do it with the defence. He did it when he did judo, so that was definitely one of the reasons it carried over.

    “It is just another little subtle thing that just continues over for what Justin did and how he impacted the program. He is still in our thoughts, and he is still in our prayers, so that is the main reason we do it.”

    The cheer will be something spectators hear when the Huskies (0-1) host their home opener on Friday at 7 p.m. at Griffiths Stadium against the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds (0-1). The contest is the Huskies annual homecoming game.

    Besides doing the cheer, the Huskies are wearing #45 decals on their helmets this season in memory of Filteau, because #45 was the number he wore with the Huskies and the Hilltops. A number of players on the Huskies current roster were teammates with Filteau.

Justin Filteau (#45) and the Huskies defence purse a ball carrier in 2016.

    Klassen was a member of Huskies for two of Filteau’s seasons. They coached inner city six-man youth football together.

    The skilled pass catcher still thinks about Filteau’s passing. Filteau, who was from Moose Jaw, was in Medicine Hat along with Moose Jaw residents Jim Wilk and Kerry DePape for a bachelor party. The three were flying back to Moose Jaw in a small plane shortly after takeoff.

    “It is definitely on the back of everybody’s mind,” said Klassen. “It is definitely something none of us are going to forget.

Colton Klassen coached minor football with Justin Filteau.

    “We’re dedicating this season a lot to Justin too. We have a 45 on our helmets this year. I only played two years with Justin, but he would have done anything for this team.

    “If that meant playing, if that meant being on the scout team, Justin did anything that he was asked.”

    Filteau seemed to anything that was asked of him from the football community in the province. After his playing days wrapped up, he coached minor football at different levels, the Bishop James Mahoney High School Saints and the Saskatoon Valkyries of the Western Women’s Canadian Football League.
    Filteau was planning to meet up with the Valkyries for a WWCFL regular season game on June 2 against the Riot after landing in Moose Jaw on the night of his ill-fated fight. The Valkyries dedicated the rest of their season to their defensive position coach winning the WWCFL title going 9-0 overall in their 2019 campaign.

    Huskies fifth-year defensive tackle Evan Machibroda was around for all of Filteau’s years with the team.

Evan Machibroda (#54) said the Huskies talk a lot about Justin Filteau.

    Machibroda, who was a first team U Sports all-Canadian all-star last season, said his team knows how special Filteau’s efforts were in giving back to the game.
    “He is definitely still talked about in the locker room,” said Machibroda. “I don’t think he ever won’t be, because he was just a really influential guy in Saskatoon and the football community in Saskatchewan as well.

    “You can’t have a bad word to say about the guy.”

    Machibroda thinks about Filteau every time his team does the Ric Flair cheer.
    “It is just a way to remember him,” said Machibroda. “That would be a little way of doing it.”

    Huskies defensive coordinator Warren Muzika said the Ric Flair cheer has extra meaning for the team now, because everyone thinks about Filteau. 

Huskies DC Warren Muzika had a tough time with Justin Filteau’s passing.

    Muzika believes the Huskies players are still at different stages in dealing with Filteau’s passing.

    “A few guys in the locker room have a #45 tattooed on their bodies in different places,” said Muzika. “Filteau meant a lot to a lot of people.

    “The guys cared a lot about Justin, and they felt really obviously just terrible when it happened. We think positively of him all the time, and we are reminded of him often around here.”

Justin Filteau in action for the Saskatoon Hilltops in 2014.

    When Muzika became the Huskies defensive coordinator in 2017, he said Filteau was big in helping him coach the other players.
    Filteau suffered his season ending injury in the Huskies 22-10 exhibition loss to the McMaster University Marauders in Hamilton, Ont., on Aug. 25, 2017 but he elected to be around the team as much as possible looking for ways to help.

    “He was at every practice once he was done his surgery,” said Muzika. “He helped us with scripts.

    “He was almost like an assistant coach that year. He was just a tremendous help and a positive energy around the room.”
    Before joining the Huskies, Muzika was an assistant coach with the Hilltops for a lengthy stretch and was their defensive line coach and specialty teams coordinator during Filteau’s first four years with the team from 2010 to 2013.
    Filteau graduated from the Hilltops following the 2014 campaign earning four CJFL championship rings.

Justin Filteau ready for action in 2016.

    Muzika, who played five seasons in the CFL from 1999 to 2003 with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Winnipeg Blue Bombers, enjoyed coaching Filteau. 

    The defensive coordinator, who built a reputation as one of the toughest players to step on a football field in Saskatchewan when he was a linebacker with the Hilltops and Huskies, said he had a tough time with Filteau’s passing.

    “It is always terrible when you see young people pass too soon,” said Muzika. “It’s a tremendous loss, but at the same time, we focus on the positives that he brought to the world and try to emulate the way Justin lived his life.”

    In conjunction with remembering Filteau, Klassen said doing the Ric Flair cheer gives the Huskies extra jump. 
    So when the breaks are beating the Dogs, it is time for “two claps and a Ric Flair.”

    “You definitely have it in the back of your mind a memory of Justin doing it,” said Klassen. “The nice thing is you know about Justin is he is watching down.

    “He is watching over us. He is happy we are doing it. He is happy that it passed over.

A  “J.F #45” sticker on a helmet of a Huskies player.

    “We’re just hoping to keep doing it, and we hopefully can give him a good winning season.”

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Football Huskies in good hands with new coaches

U of Saskatchewan might surprise a few in U Sports ranks

Huskies head coach Scott Flory, right, meets fans as part of a charity event.

    The University of Saskatchewan Huskies football team has the coaching staff to take them into the future.

    There were huge bumps in the road that made the process of creating a new coaching staff a painful one. The departure of legendary Huskies head coach Brian Towriss late last December wasn’t handled in the smoothest fashion to say the least. A joint statement had to be posted on the Huskie Athletics website from U of S president Peter Stoicheff and Towriss that saw Stoicheff apologize for how the news of Towriss’s resignation was handled.

    Towriss will be officially inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame on Sept. 14 in Hamilton, Ont.

    Former CFL and Huskies star player Scott Flory, who had been the Huskies offensive coordinator, was named the team’s new head coach on March 13. Since that time, Flory, who will turn 41 on July 15, has taken the ball and run with it putting his stamp on the team. Flory has put in the ground work to create optimism.

    He revamped the coaching staff, and the staff is likely deeper overall than it was during Towriss’s final season. Including Flory, only six people from the 16 person coaching staff last season remain to be part of the 14 person staff this season. The five other holdovers include Dan Houle, Lane Bryska, Cody Halseth, Braden Suchan and Paul Woldu.

    Flory brought in long-time veteran CFL quarterback Marcus Crandell as the new offensive coordinator. Crandell was a member of the Calgary Stampeders Grey Cup winning team in 2001 and the Saskatchewan Roughriders Grey Cup championship team in 2007. Those that knew Crandell during his years in Regina speak highly of him, and you can expect him to give the offence great guidance.

    Warren Muzika joined the Huskies as the team’s new defensive coordinator. Muzika played for first the Canadian Junior Football League’s Saskatoon Hilltops and then the Huskies establishing a reputation of being a “Terminator” type linebacker in the 1990s.

    The graduate of Saskatoon’s Walter Murray High School helped the Hilltops win the Canadian Bowl in 1991 and the Huskies win Vanier Cups in 1996 and 1998. He played five seasons in the CFL split between the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers from 1999 to 2003 and was on Hamilton’s Grey Cup winner in 1999.

Kyle Siemens (#19) fires a pass downfield for the Huskies.

    After returning to Saskatoon once his CFL career wrapped up to pursue a teaching career, Muzika spent time as a defensive assistant with the Hilltops playing a major part in shaping that team’s linebackers. He never had a sizable role on the Huskies coaching staff until now. It is great that Flory is re-establishing some stronger links with old alums and storied former Huskies players like Muzika, who now gets to play a more significant role with the program.

    The other new assistant coaches Flory brought in who had significant playing careers with the Huskies include Duane Dmytryshyn and Tony Michalchuk. Jeremy Long and Tye Mountney are two new assistants that spent a short time with the Huskies as players. Mountney is better remembered as a star linebacker with the Hilltops in the 1990s helping them win a Canadian Bowl in 1996.

    The Huskies saw another old face return to the fold when Jerry Friesen rejoined the team as the special teams coordinator. Friesen played five seasons with the Huskies in the 1970s and was an assistant coach for 10 years starting in 1986. He spent time coaching the U of Calgary Dinos, U of Alberta Golden Bears and University of British Columbia Thunderbirds in his lengthy career before rejoining the Huskies.

    Friesen, who was the head coach of the Golden Bears during his stop at U of A, brings tonnes of valuable experience to the Huskies.

    The current Huskies staff is rounded out by Ignite Conditioning co-owner Joel Lipinski, who is the strength and conditioning coordinator and a defensive assistant. Before making CFL stops as a player with the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Edmonton Eskimos, Lipinski made his mark in the U Sports ranks as an all-Canadian defensive back first with the U of Regina Rams and then with the Saint Mary’s University Huskies in the 2000s.

    Since becoming head coach, Flory has been visible on many fronts in the community. He is pretty active in reaching out to team supporters either in person or through electronic correspondence.  His messaging to his players has been great as he tells them everything matters on and off the field including demeanor, words, actions, decisions and academics.

    Having talked to a couple of the current Huskies football coaches in public settings, it sounds like the Huskies new coaching staff has developed chemistry quite quickly and the atmosphere with the staff is very upbeat. It is conceivable the Huskies could have a strong year in 2017.

The Huskies defence gets set for action.

    The new coaching staff also doesn’t have to rebuild the program from the ground up. They take over a Huskies squad that posted a solid 5-3 regular season record in 2016 before getting thumped 47-17 in a Canada West semifinal playoff game to the Dinos. The Dinos went on to fall in the Vanier Cup to the Universite Laval Rouge et Or 31-26.

    The Huskies are slated to return a number of key players including quarterback Kyle Siemens and defensive lineman Matt Kozun. The Dogs might not experience that many growing pains. The Huskies first game is a pre-season contest on Aug. 25, when they travel to Hamilton, Ont., to face the McMaster University Marauders.

    With that said, the competition in the Canada West Conference is always tough, so success is never guaranteed. Still, it wouldn’t be a surprise if the Huskies went out and had a memorable campaign.

Two youngsters, one great vet take Valkyries awards

Alex Eyolfson is the Valkyries offensive MVP.

    The Saskatoon Valkyries women’s football team gave nods to two members of their youth moment and one to standout veteran at their team awards on Thursday night at Saskatoon Minor Football Field’s clubhouse complex.

    The Valkyries offensive and defensive MVP awards went to two of the Valkyries young sophomore players. Quarterback Alex Eyolfson was named the Valkyries offensive MVP.

    The 19-year-old assumed the role as the full-time starter in her second campaign with the team. The graduate of Saskatoon’s Holy Cross High School has grown significantly over the past two seasons with the team and has a good command of the team’s offence.

    Linebacker Emmarae Dale was named the team’s defensive MVP. Since joining the Valkyries last year, Dale, who is a graduate of Saskatoon’s St. Joseph High School, immediately became a force on the defensive side of the ball. Also a member of the U of Saskatchewan Huskies track and field team, Dale reads and reacts quickly to plays and moves swiftly from sideline to sideline.

    The Valkyries presented their Green and White award to sixth-year standout defensive lineman Melanie Harris for her overall dedication to the team and the women’s game. Harris lives in Outlook, Sask., and drives into Saskatoon for all the team’s practices and games. Each of those round trips takes two hours out of Harris’s day.

    Harris has become a realizable fixture on the defensive line helping the Valkyries win Western Women’s Canadian Football League titles in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2016. She retired from playing with the Valkyries at the conclusion of the 2017 campaign.

    This past season, the Valkyries posted a 5-2 overall record, and both of their losses came to the Regina Riot, who won the WWCFL title. The Valkyries fell 34-24 in the WWCFL Prairie Conference championship game in Regina to the Riot on June 4, and closed the season with a 44-20 victory in a WWCFL consolation final over the Edmonton Storm on June 10 in Saskatoon.

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