Local Sports

Okotoks Drillers forward Michael Kneeland is enjoying his life as an Innisfail Eagle.

Members of the Sundre Minor Hockey Association (SMHA) are reducing dynamite registration fees by more than 50 per cent, in an effort to recruit more kids to join the team in the fall.

The Innisfail Eagles are down three games to zero after a 5-4 double overtime loss to the Bentley Generals in their Chinook Hockey League final that saw a standout performance from Eagles' goalie Jonathan Larose.

It wasn't pretty. In fact it was downright nasty, except for a desperate flurry at the end. No matter.

On the bus ride into Okotoks on the afternoon of March 12, there was only subdued chatter among the Olds Grizzlys as they thought about the do-or-die final game of their best-of-five series against the Okotoks Oilers.

A pair of Olds Rapids Swim Club members broke several club records at a provincial trials event in Calgary on the weekend of February 21 to 23.

Innisfail Minor Lacrosse Association Phantoms players received a visit from National Lacrosse League's premiere goalie Aaron Bold and left their encounter as better goalies.

Olds’ Special Olympics swim squad scored five first-place finishes at its first-ever swim meet in Didsbury on Feb. 22 hosted by the Airdrie Special Olympics swim club.

As the Innisfail Eagles duke it out against the Bentley Generals for the Chinook Hockey League championship, the organization and community can be assured the team's fine first-year performance in the AAA senior men's hockey circuit is being duly rec

Not only did Olds High School student Andreas Troschke win gold in the 16-pound weight throw event at the Provincial Indoor Track and Field Championship in Edmonton on March 1, he broke a 14-year-old event record by 85 centimetres.