Perry Bergson
Sports Writer at Brandon Sun
Brandon Sun sports writer (#BWK Brandon Wheat Kings of the #WHL in the winter and baseball in the summer), husband, dog lover, two-time Ironman finisher.
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1 week ago |
brandonsun.com | Perry Bergson
The Westman Border Twilight Fastball League makes its season-opening Brandon debut today, with all three 50-plus teams taking part. “The trip to Brandon is our new highlight,” league president Les Ellchuk said. “We want to be able to show the people in Brandon that there is still ball going on, and even more so, it’s 50-, 60- and 70-year-olds. Brandon was a hotbed for men’s fastball at one time.
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1 week ago |
brandonsun.com | Perry Bergson
The Brandon Wheat Kings won’t be back next season for what promises to be the final season of the existing format for the Manitoba Female Hockey League U18 AAA. Hockey Manitoba announced the addition of the Brandon franchise in the spring of 2024, and in their one and only season, the Wheat Kings finished fifth of nine clubs in the regular season with a record of 17-17-3.
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1 week ago |
brandonsun.com | Perry Bergson
Ayven Hontvet is among the American hockey players looking at the Western Hockey League in a new way. The Brandon Wheat Kings nabbed the six-foot-one, 220-pound defenceman from Warroad, Minn., with the final pick of the U.S. priority draft earlier this month, and with the changes to NCAA eligibility rules for major junior players last November, the WHL is being looked at it a new way. “It’s definitely a viable option now because you can go,” Hontvet said.
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2 weeks ago |
brandonsun.com | Perry Bergson
Levi Ellingsen can only imagine what the moment will be like the first time he skates onto the ice at the Toyota Center. The 15-year-old product of Pasco, Wash., grew up watching the Tri-City Americans, but the Brandon Wheat Kings grabbed him with the first overall pick in the Western Hockey League’s U.S. prospects draft earlier this month. “I feel like it would be a dream come true,” Ellingsen said of skating out onto the Toyota Center ice.
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2 weeks ago |
brandonsun.com | Perry Bergson
Taren Anderson admitted he sometimes felt the added pressure in his major bantam season last winter as the scouts were watching. At times, that scrutiny brought some weight for the five-foot-nine, 141-pound forward, who was born in Regina and lived there for a couple of years before moving to Pilot Butte, a bedroom community of 2,300 located 12 kilometres to the east. “It definitely did at times,” Anderson said.
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Brandon wins the top spot in the U.S. Draft.
The @bdnwheatkings have won the 2025 WHL U.S. Priority Draft Lottery and now hold the first-overall selection. The 2025 WHL U.S. Priority Draft is scheduled for Thursday, May 8. 📝 | https://t.co/RGISNHMypX https://t.co/33JrTWwCbg
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