Local Sports

INNISFAIL – A love of cycling took an Innisfail-area potato farmer from the fields to the podium. John Buyks, a 65-year-old local farmer, recently won two gold medals at the Canada 55+ Games held from Aug. 21 to 24 in St. John, N.B.

INNISFAIL - More bad luck has fallen on the beleaguered Innisfail Minor Football Association (IMFA). On the same day (Aug.

CARSTAIRS-DIDSBURY - Mountain View 9-Man Football League coaches say they are looking forward to the 2018 season. The league has seen some turmoil this past off-season, with much of the board stepping down, but is now ready to go.

Olds resident Zachary Latimer, a previous two-time Canadian Junior national bronze medallist, won the best junior male weightlifter title at the Ogopogo open weightlifting contest near Kelowna last month.

An Olds youth has signed on with the Lethbridge Hurricanes of the Western Hockey League. The team announced last week that they had signed forward Jett Jones to a standard WHL player agreement. Jones, 16, was undrafted.

Local teen Keegan Hodgson, 13, took to the waves this year and began competing in surfing competitions and had a successful first year. Keegan only began surfing in 2016 after his family decided to buy a boat.

The Sundre Bison have since the beginning of last month been getting ready for the upcoming start of the Mountain View 9 Man Football Conference’s season. The team’s first game is scheduled for this Saturday, Sept.

CARSTAIRS - The Carstairs Memorial Arena will be busy this week as both the WHL Calgary Hitmen and Junior A Olds Grizzlys play exhibition games in town. The Hitmen host the Edmonton Oil Kings on Sept. 8 at 7 p.m.

INNISFAIL – It may be the off-season but hockey is never far from mind for many fans. Especially when Canadian icon and Hockey Night In Canada host Ron MacLean and hockey greats, including Innisfail Eagles head coach Brian Sutter, are involved.

INNISFAIL - The Innisfail Minor Football Association (IMFA) has folded two of its gridiron programs. The atom program will continue on. Last Thursday (Aug.