Local Sports

The Innisfail Eagles' deck of cards has been shuffled as the team prepares to move into Senior AAA hockey play next year.

Although his team ultimately lost, Olds High School's Quade Smith made a huge play during the ABC Rising Star Border Bowl in Kelowna, B.C., on May 25. The bowl between Alberta and B.C.

Eight Olds High School athletes qualified for provincial competition at a zones track meet in Calgary on May 28.

The Olds Athletics have suspended Parkland Baseball League play for the 2013 season because too few players came out to play.

The Olds junior B Stingers who came out of the locker room for the second period of play against the High River Heat on June 2 in Olds was not the same team that left the court after a disastrous first frame.

Eighteen athletes from Sundre High School's track and field team are participating in the provincial championship in Calgary this weekend. “They will be contending for their fifth provincial championship,” said coach Judy Jackson.

Innisfail Minor Soccer has 198 players registered this soccer season.

A total of 11 athletes from Olds High School will be participating in the Junior South Central Zone Track and Field Championships on June 5 in Calgary.

The Olds High School Spartans girls rugby team was unable to overcome a slow start on May 22 and was ultimately defeated 30-17 at the hands of the Lacombe Composite High School Rams in Lacombe.

Fans were treated to a series of high-energy lacrosse games over the weekend that showed the determination of local forces on the floor and in the stands.