Local Sports

Local golfers Chrissie and Alan Finch played well at the Special Olympics Summer Games held in Devon last month, but failed to qualify for Team Alberta at the national games to be held next summer in Vancouver.

Local wrestler Amber Maschke won two of three matches that she competed in at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile from July 10 to 15, taking bronze in the 55-kilogram women's junior freestyle competition. “I thought that I wrestled really well.

After only taking up BMX racing in November, Olds' Gavin Caskey has won his first gold medal in the sport.

Golfer Jason Thiels of Olds finished in a tie for 28 at Alberta Golf's Alberta Men's Amateur Championship held from July 16 to 19 at the Sundre Golf Club. Thiels finished with a 303 total (+15) over 72 holes.

Olds will co-host the Alberta Bantam Double-A Tier 1 provincial baseball championships with Acme from July 26 to 28.

The Olds junior B Stingers lacrosse team didn't make it past their first and only playoff game, losing 16-10 to the Calgary Axemen-Mavericks on July 6.

Emily Lucas and Mackenzie Ramsell have only pursued track and field for a year but already they are competing against Canada's elite.

Sundre Minor Ball's bantam girls team placed (update on Monday) in the home provincial tournament over the weekend. It could be the first time in history that Sundre has hosted a bantam girls minor ball provincial tournament.

Fourteen people from Olds will represent the area and compete on the Zone 2 team at the 55-plus Summer Games being held in Barrhead/Westlock from July 25 to 28.

The Olds Stingers midget lacrosse team helped out their fellow competitors from High River, which was devastated by flooding last month, during a tournament in Calgary over the weekend of June 29 to July 1.