Local Sports

Several Innisfail athletes are gearing up to compete in the 2016 Alberta Winter Games in Medicine Hat. The biennial event takes place from Feb. 13 to 16. Innisfail is sending three local athletes to the games this year.

It was far from the most well attended major tourney the Innisfail Curling Club has ever hosted but the quality of competition was nevertheless stellar for the annual ladies classic.

The Sundre midget tier 3 Huskies are aiming to repeat last year's first-place finish in the North Central Minor Hockey Association's league championship finals. “We're in second place right now,” coach Brad Price said in an interview.

The Innisfail Peewee C Palliser Flyers may be few in numbers but are mighty in determination and strength. Those were the qualities that shone during the Innisfail Minor Hockey team's annual peewee C tournament on Jan.

The Broncos women's hockey team was eliminated from playoff contention after a 3-1 loss to the NAIT Ooks in Olds on Feb. 4. Four out of five ACAC (Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference) teams make the playoffs.

The Innisfail High School boys and girls senior basketball teams are experiencing the highs and lows typical of a basketball season. The girls team has seen more success while the boys team has struggled.

The Community Learning Campus's Tri-Active program is underway and well-attended, selling out within a week-and-a-half, according to fitness supervisor Brittany Ehmann.

Olds College's athletics programmer, strength and conditioning coach Mark Oxer returned from a CrossFit team competition in Edmonton with his squad finishing fifth out of 28.

The Grizzlys host the Sherwood Park Crusaders tonight, hoping to snap their seven-game losing streak. Olds lost both its games this past weekend, 5-2 to the Okotoks Oilers on Friday and 6-4 against the Canmore Eagles on Saturday.

Members of the Special Olympics Phoenix Swim Team placed from first to sixth among more than100 swimmers during a meet in Red Deer. The event, called Special Olympics Red Deer swim meet, was held on Jan. 30.