Local Sports

The Innisfail Eagles will be departing for the small eastern Alberta farming town of Provost on March 31 for the Investors Group Hockey Alberta Senior AA/A Provincial Championship.

For most 9- and 10-year-old minor hockey players this season came and went and was just another year of hockey, but for one atom team from Bowden this season became about much more than playing a game, it became about life.

Despite blizzard like conditions local speed skater Rick Dijkstra braved the elements to place first in a 50 and a 100 kilometre speed skating marathon on Sylvan Lake last month.

Write your Story Here The Sundre High School Senior Boys basketball team concluded a very successful season last weekend at the South Central Zone tournament winning the consolation side of the tournament.

After a relatively successful fall schedule playing teams in the higher-ranked Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference, the Olds College women's Broncos basketball team came back with a real commitment to winning in the latter part of the year, going 20

The Olds Peewee female Thunder were among four local hockey teams that competed in provincial championships over the weekend. The Thunder lost in the final of the tournament, in Red Deer, 3-1 to Lamond.

A group of Central Alberta women are taking girls hockey to a whole new level and have chosen Penhold as the place to do it.

After a winter hiatus local rodeo hands and members of the Canadian Professional Rodeo Association, are packing their saddlebags and trekking out onto the rodeo trail.

The Innisfail Bantam AA Flyers provincial journey came to an end earlier then hoped but despite just missing playoffs the team celebrated a few big successes over the weekend in Camrose.

Even after a year away from the game, a former Junior hockey player is still plagued by the effects of multiple head injuries.