Local Sports

The Olds Grizzlys lost a pair of tight games in Alberta Junior Hockey League action last week, dropping a 3-2 decision on Friday to the Canmore Eagles and a 2-1 contest to the Drumheller Dragons on Jan. 30 at the Olds Sports Complex.

The Jan. 28-29 weekend marked the end of the 2012 regular season for the Innisfail Eagles. The boys were on the road to face off for the last time against their rivals, the Sylvan Lake Admirals, for their fourth and final meeting.

The Olds College junior varsity women's basketball team dropped both their games at the Ralph Klein Centre over the weekend, losing 64-44 to the St.

About 110 current and former Olds College students came together on Jan. 29 for the annual alumni rodeo at the college. The competitors tried their hands at events ranging from pole bending to women's cow riding and saddle bronc.

In three weeks a group of 18 dancers will be strutting their stuff on stage in Disneyland. Between 11 and 17 years old, the girls have been practising their half hour non-stop routine at Joy's School of Dance.

Half-way through the basketball season the Innisfail Cyclones teams are looking good on the court and in the league standings. "Both teams are doing well," said Jeff Anderson, athletics director and vice-principal at Innisfail Jr,/Sr. High.

The Olds High School senior boys basketball team was defeated 76-53 by the Canmore Collegiate High School Crusaders in the final of the Spartan Classic tournament hosted on the weekend at the Ralph Klein Centre.

The Olds Grizzlys split a pair of games last week in Alberta Junior Hockey League play against the Calgary Mustangs and Camrose Kodiaks. The Grizzlys lost 4-2 on Jan.

The Olds Midget Mustangs won two games and lost once in North Central Minor Hockey Association games last week. The wins came Thursday against the Red Deer Midget Kings Energy (9-3) and a 10-1 win against the Sundre Midgets Saturday.

The Olds Grizzlys' winning streak was stopped at seven games with a 3-2 shootout loss to the Camrose Kodiaks on Friday at the Edgeworth Centre in Camrose.