Local Sports

Olds Koinonia Christian School's senior boys basketball team finished its season with silver medals after hosting South Central Zone's 1A championship on March 12.

The Grizzlys' 34th season came to an end on Sunday night, with a 7-2 loss in Game 3 of the team's first-round playoff series against the Camrose Kodiaks. Defenceman Austin Pickford and forward Wyatt Noskey scored a goal each.

The Grizzlys' Wyatt Noskey is this season's AJHL scoring champion. In 60 regular season games with Olds, Noskey scored 29 goals and recorded 54 assists to capture the Ernie Love Trophy.

A local team of junior curlers recently brought back a bronze medal from the Alberta Schools' Athletic Association High School Zones.

Game 7. Overtime. Heartbreaking loss. It was an end to a series that many did not see coming.

After three rounds of provincial playdowns, the Sundre atom A Huskies defeated the Carstairs Bruins on Sunday, Feb. 28 to win the Zone 6 championship banner, moving them on to provincials.

February's unseasonably high temperatures nearly forced the shelving of the bats and balls for the sixth annual Sno-Pitch Tournament but the event was saved when the town gave a last minute green light. And when the two-day tourney, held Feb.

The countdown is on for the Innisfail Female Atom Flyers as they prepare to host the 2016 Provincial Championships.

Rope skipping is more than a schoolyard activity for children. It's also a sport that has its own sanctioning bodies at the provincial, national and international levels.

Reg Carrick doesn't count the medals when asked to sum up his coaching career. He has more important things on his mind. Carrick just ended his sixth and final season as head coach of Olds College's women's basketball team.