Local Sports

The Innisfail Eagles are hosting their first-ever Sportsman Dinner on July 23 with flamboyant hockey personality Brian Burke headlining the event.

The Olds junior B Stingers had an easy time dispatching the Medicine Hat Sun Devils at the Olds Sports Complex on June 22.But the team knows they have a difficult road ahead.

The day is coming soon when young men will be called to shake the NHL commissioner's hand and don the cap and jersey of a professional team. It's a dream many would have had since they were boys.

A local athlete struck gold in the midget hammer throw at the Calgary Track and Field meet on June 15.Andreas Troschke, 15, recorded a throw of 49.09 metres, almost nine metres ahead of the second-place winner.

Olds wrestler Danielle Lappage captured first-place honours in her weight category at an Austrian wrestling tournament on the weekend of June 14 and 15.

As the only player from the 1994 Centennial Cup-winning Olds Grizzlys team still directly connected to the club, Jeramie Heistad wanted to bring the powerful feelings of accomplishment and brotherhood that were revived on June 7 when that team was in

Sundre High School students won the track and field provincial championship for the sixth consecutive year. There were 16 athletes who participated in the championship held in Calgary on June 6 and 7.

Students at Ecole Deer Meadow School took part of their day off to swim, cycle and run in the school's second annual triathlon on June 11. There were 127 students from grades 5 to 8 who participated, either individually or in a team of three.

Macky Singh, Olds College's newest soccer coach, could be excused for being impatient.His women's team at St.

Olds Rapids Swim Club member Mitchell Ormann had a phenomenal run at the Freeze or Fry annual swimming event in Red Deer from June 6 to 8, capturing gold in five categories and breaking three club records.