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A sport many view as a way to stay in shape and as a recreational activity for everyone, has taken off in Saskatchewan.

New head coach and general manager Kevin Hasselberg has been in the Battlefords for a couple weeks now and this week his family joined him, with school for his son beginning this week.

It was a known fact after the fourth games of the North Battleford Touch Football League, two teams who be undefeated, two would be winless and the other four would be somewhere in between.

Some may have been tuned into their favourite sport on TSN recently and recognized a familiar name. Shayne Morrissey, who played with the Battlefords North Stars for the first half of the 2010-11 season is on a commercial running in August on TSN.

The end of the horseshoe season will soon be here, but until then, local pitchers continue to hit their mark. The local club hosted an annual horseshoe tournament during Northwest Territorial. Taking first place was Vern Bannerman.

This year, the Humboldt Dodgers had one of the best experiences a team could ever have. It had already been quite a season for the 16-18-year-old AAA Midget players who won the provincial title in July.

As Lorne Harasen said on behalf of the 2011 inductees in his reply speech, "the heart and soul of baseball is in the rural communities.

The North Battleford Touch Football League has had some good weather to start the season and four of the teams are thriving with the conditions. Four teams are preached perfectly at 3-0, while the remaining four teams are 0-3.

It wasn't exactly the camp the coaching staff was hoping to have, as the Battlefords Midget AAA Sharks looked to put the struggles of the 2010-11 season behind them and start fresh with the 2011-12 training camp.

Courtney Laycook has taken the next step in her hockey career, as she graduates from the Sharks and has committed to the Rainy River Community College women's hockey program.