Tristan Muir, Michael Ritchie and Micah Taggart-Cox turned in four top-three performances at the Canada West Short Track Championships March 19 and 20.

The trio was competing against more than 100 rivals from the four western provinces as well as Northwest Territories.

The youngest of the Yukon boys, 13-year-old Muir, took home two medals – winning gold in the 2,000-metre points race and bronze in the 1,500.

Ritchie, 15, earned a bronze in the 3,000-m points race, and just missed out on a podium finish in the 1,500 – taking fourth.

Taggart-Cox’s event got off to a rough start with a fall in his first race – a 1,500-m heat. But he recovered later, posting a second-place finish in the 2,000-m points race.

The Whitehorse Rapids Speed Skating Club will conclude its season April 3 with the Yukon Championships at the Canada Games Centre. – Report courtesy of Malcolm Taggart

Former NHL winger to appear at tournament

Next weekend’s Yukon Native Hockey Tournament will have some star power rinkside. Philadelphia Flyers alumnus Reggie Leach will attend the event, as will country singer Aaron Pritchett, who is slated to sing the national anthem prior to the A division final.

The popular three-day tournament, sponsored this year by Kilrich Building Centres, will run April 1 to 3 in Whitehorse, featuring 43 teams in six divisions.

Season-ending Twister race cancelled

The final recreational mushing race on the Yukon calendar was cancelled last Sunday, marking an anticlimactic end to the season.

The sprint race was set to take place Sunday morning in the Ibex Valley.

“The decision was taken to cancel the race after unsuccessfully attempting to prepare the trail after the snowfall we had last Friday,” said a statement from the DPSAY board.

“With the great difference of temperature between night and day, it revealed difficult to get proper racing conditions.”