Local Sports

Amy Nixon, who threw third stones for the Shannon Kleibrink rink that earned a bronze medal for Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, was the keynote speaker at the wrap-up of the Olds Farmers and Farmerettes Bonspiel on Feb. 16.

The Olds College mixed curling team just couldn't make their last rock stick in extra ends and lost their bid for a bronze medal to Red Deer College 5-4 in the Alberta Colleges Athletics Conference (ACAC) 2013 championships on Feb. 24.

Thanks to a massive home win over the Grande Prairie Wolves on Feb. 22, the Olds College Broncos women's basketball team is heading to the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conferences finals for the first time ever.

Plans for the upcoming provincial hockey championship to be hosted at the Innisfail Twin Arena the first weekend in April have begun to materialize.

On the night of Feb. 9, Jylisa Williams smashed an 18-year-old Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) single-game scoring record when she tallied 52 points against the Red Deer College Queens.

Mackenzie Ramsall has been recognized provincially for her achievements in track and field. The 15-year-old Innisfailian was nominated for Athletics Alberta's top female midget athlete (ages 14-15) for the year 2012.

After an eventful season both boys and girls Grade 8-9 basketball teams came out victorious in regular season play. With a win in Delburne the girls clinched the top slot in the league and are looking forward to hosting playoffs Tuesday, Feb.

Two Sundre-raised curlers won the B event in the Men's Alberta Provincial Curling Championships last week, which were held in Leduc.

A bunch of local youth are twirling and ice dancing their way through the winter blahs. Local figure skaters recently returned from the Didsbury Rising Star Fun Meet with a treasure trove of medals, and can't wait for the big ice show to come.

The Central Alberta Amazons blasted the Medicine Hat Hounds 7-2 in the second last game of the regular season for a team that has grown increasingly close over the course of the year.