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The Westlock Warriors Atom hockey club ended up losing the Hockey Alberta Zone 3 provincial tournament against the Whitecourt Wolverines despite winning their second match on Jan. 30 9-5. The two-game total-point series had begun on Jan.

The Westlock Pee Wee Warriors have advanced to the second round of provincials. The Warriors defeated Edson 10-6 - 14-11 over two games - at the Rotary Spirit Centre Jan.

The Westlock Midget Warriors are off to the second round of the zone playoffs following a 10-3 Sunday night win over the St. Albert Flyers. The club trailed St. Albert 6-4 after Game 1 of the two-game, total-goals series played Jan. 22 in Westlock.

The Barrhead Steelers took their first step towards returning to the provincial Midget A championships on Tuesday, Jan 24, at home by easily dispatching the CR Knights from Calahoo 10-0 in the first round of provincial zone qualifiers.

The Edmonton Running Room’s annual Indoor Games may be more than two months away, but that doesn’t mean Barrhead Elementary School’s (BES) track team is resting on its laurels.

R.F. Staples’ junior high basketball teams brought home some hardware over the weekend from the Junior Strike Energy Service Tournament at St. Joseph’s School in Whitecourt. The boys took home gold Jan.

It was a weekend of mixed emotions for the Midget Warriors at the Rotary Spirit Centre. The Tier 3 team beat Leduc 4-2 in a regular 1660 Hockey League match-up, but their three-game winning streak came to an end at home Jan. 22 in a 6-4 loss to St.

The Hawks and Steelers faced off against one another in a regular season inter-lock game on Jan. 20 in Barrhead, to settle last week’s tie with Barrhead emerging victorious, 5-3.

For the visiting Maskwacis Hawks at times it must have seemed like the Barrhead Flyers could score at will — and to paraphrase Dr. Leonard McCoy of Star Trek fame, ‘ Brother do they have a lot of will.

Playing on the road with a shorthanded, banged-up team, Midget ‘A’ Hawks coach Jody Tangedal knew it would take a special effort from his players to get a good result. Some fine goaltending helped as well.