Local Sports

Just a day after being granted a trade to the Okotoks Oilers, defenceman Craig Gans burned his hometown team by assisting on the overtime winner against the Olds Grizzlys in Alberta Junior Hockey League play on Friday.

IHS senior girls maintained their undefeated status last week, finishing the last league game of the season victorious against the rival undefeated team from Camrose. “It was nerve-racking,” said Taryn Kramer of the final game of the night.

The Olds Grizzlys traded the team's top scorer so far this season, Taylor Bourne, to the Coquitlam Express of the British Columbia Hockey League in exchange for 18-year-old forward Mitch Deacon and future considerations.

In 2009, the Peewee Cyclones football team shocked the province by winning the B-side championship and winning a silver medal at provincials. That year was the first time in Football Alberta history a town, not a city, was in the provincial finals.

Down to only three substitutes at the end of the game – and pressing seventh-string quarterback Dustin Capplett into action – cost the Olds Rotary Bulldogs in the consolation Tier III final of the Central Alberta Football League Saturday.

Rose Vennard has been a fixture of Sundre curling for more than 60 years, showing up at the Sundre Curling Club every fall to meet with friends and play the game she loves.

The Olds High School senior girls volleyball team took third place with a 3-3 record at the annual Spartan Smash tournament held on Friday and Saturday at the Community Learning Campus.

The Innisfail High School senior girls are storming through the season, remaining undefeated within their zone. The 3A volleyball team smashed a 10-year record of defeat Tuesday night when they beat Sylvan Lake during a league game.

The IHS JV. volleyball team wrapped up its season last night against Lindsay Thurber in Red Deer.

For the Cyclones peewee football team, it has been the dream season, so far. They ended the regular season with the No. 1 offence, No. 1 defence, and ranked No. 1 overall in the league.