Local Sports

Local residents as well as current and former Olds Broncos athletes did well in a badminton tournament held March 23 in the Ralph Klein Centre.

Seven members of the Olds Gymnastics Club (OGC) are getting ready to compete in the artistic provincials, April 12-14 in Edmonton.

LACOMBE – It was a close battle. After falling 4-1 to the Lacombe Generals in Game 1 of the senior AAA provincial championships Saturday night (March 30) in Innisfail, the local Birds tied the Generals in Lacombe on Sunday.

INNISFAIL - It was another night to remember for the Innisfail Minor Hockey Association (IMHA).

CARSTAIRS-CREMONA-DIDSBURY -- The local hockey season has finished for another year. Many teams from the area did very well in playoff competition both regionally and provincially.

CARSTAIRS -- Curling season wrapped up in Carstairs on the weekend with the mixed wind-up bonspiel, which was held from March 28-31 at the Carstairs Curling Club. The bonspiel featured 26 teams from Calgary, Cochrane and Carstairs.

Former Olds High School student Andreas Troschke, now a student at the University of Lethbridge, won bronze in weight throwing during the USports' National Indoor Track & Field Championship.

The number of teams that participated in the annual Shaggin On Sno fundraising tournament was down slightly from last year, but the money raised was on par with previous years, according to organizer Mary Smith.

Local throwing coach Rachel Andres has started a new track and field club in the community. It's called the Olds Velites Track Club. Her husband suggested the name.

A product of Sundre's minor hockey association has just wrapped up a very successful season playing hockey in Iceland. Adam Beukeboom, who was born and raised in Sundre, was the top goaltender for the Skautafelag Akureyrar Vikingar (Vikings).