Local Sports

Twenty-five contestants tried their luck this weekend at the annual horseshoe competition hosted in Innisfail since 1987. The two-day event ran 10 to 4 each day and was broken into various classes.

Potential Olds Grizzlys hit the ice on Saturday for the first time this year in attempt to make the club following the conclusion of the exhibition schedule on Sept. 5.

Rick Rypien was a great teammate, always willing to step up when a teammate was in trouble, remembers Jason Jaffray, a former teammate of Rypien's with the Manitoba Moose, the former American Hockey League affiliate of the Vancouver Canucks.

Junior golfers from across the province converged on Innisfail and Olds to participate in McLennan Ross Sun Junior Tour tournaments. It was a productive week for Innisfail golfer Cara Vanderham as she captured both tournaments held Aug.

The Olds High School Spartans football team hit the field Monday morning for the start of the team's training camp.

At the tender age of 14 Innisfail’s Brayden Posyluzny has only been competing in track and field for two years. But already he is a provincial record holder.

The Innisfail Indians' push for a sixth Parkland Baseball League title came to an end Friday night after a late-inning blow-up in game two of the best-of-three PBL Championship against the Rocky Red Dogs.

Giving participants the opportunity to make healthy lifestyle changes is the objective behind a program currently running three times a week in Olds and twice a week in Didsbury.

A total of 118 4-H participants from around the province descended on the MegaDome August 9 through Thursday for the second annual provincial 4-H Horse Show.

Olds Olympia FC tuned up for the playoffs on Sunday with a 3-2 victory over Condor in Red Deer City Soccer Association play at the Community Learning Campus field.