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The Prairie Football Conference championship is on the line on Sunday in Saskatoon (1 p.m., SMF Field) as the Regina Thunder meet the Saskatoon Hilltops in Canadian junior football action.
The Thunder earned a trip to the final after beating the Calgary Colts 64-7 in the semifinal on the weekend while Saskatoon beat the Edmonton Huskies 33-18 in the other semifinal.
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Sunday’s game will be the third meeting of the season between the two clubs with the Hilltops winning 29-15 on Sept. 7 and 36-11 on Sept. 28. The two losses were Regina’s only defeats of the season while Saskatoon went undefeated.
These two teams also met last year in the PFC Final with Saskatoon winning 21-13 before going on to claim the CJFL’s Canadian Bowl.
After falling 4-3 in overtime to the Saskatoon Blades on Tuesday, the Regina Pats are back home on Saturday (6 p.m., Brandt Centre) as they host the Seattle Thunderbirds in Western Hockey League action.
Saturday’s game features two teams with identical records to begin the season as both Regina and Seattle are off to 4-4-1 starts in their respective conferences.
It will be the second game of Seattle’s six-game East Division road trip, which started Friday in Brandon.
After Saturday’s game, Regina will be off until Oct. 25 when the Pats welcome the Calgary Hitmen to the Brandt Centre before traveling to Medicine Hat for a clash with the Tigers the following night.
Following a bye week, the University of Regina Rams football club is set to visit the University of Saskatchewan Huskies on Saturday in Saskatoon (1 p.m., Griffiths Stadium).
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After winning their first two games of the Canada West season — including a 33-28 victory over the Huskies in Week 2 — the Rams (2-4) have lost four straight games and sit tied for the final playoff spot with the Alberta Golden Bears (2-4) and Calgary Dinos (2-4).
The Manitoba Bisons (5-1), UBC Thunderbirds (4-2) and Huskies (3-3) occupy the top three spots in the Canada West conference.
A win on Saturday would go a long way in helping Regina get into the playoffs while a loss would mean Regina would need quite an effort in the final week of the season.
While Regina holds the tiebreaker over Calgary after outscoring the Dinos 44-39 in a season split this year, the Golden Bears hold the tiebreaker over Regina after a 30-6 win on Sept. 20, which means the Rams would need to beat the Golden Bears by 25 points in the regular season finale against Alberta on Oct. 25 in Regina.
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