Local Sports

Running is often a solitary sport, but it doesn’t have to be - at least if you are in Barrhead.

Senior baseball season is just around the corner and Barrhead Orioles governor Joey Greilach says he can’t wait for the first pitch.

The past year at Misty Ridge Ski Hill was down and up and then down again. And not just from the skiers and snowboarders going up and down the ski slopes.

It was a gilded afternoon for R.F. Staples badminton players April 22 at the 2016 North Conference Senior High Badminton Tournament.

After another year of 1660 Hockey League play is over, the ice out of the Rotary Spirit Centre and a new president has been named for the Westlock Minor Hockey Association.

Athabasca will get a chance to see some top-level college hockey talent this fall with Athabascaís first college hockey tournament. The new competition will feature three menís teams ñ with games to be played the Sept.

Barrhead’s unofficial tennis club is getting ready for another season. For a few years a group of diehard tennis players have been meeting every Tuesday and Thursday evening at the Barrhead tennis courts.

The Neerlandia Sports Committee is hoping to make Hockey Night, or morning or afternoon, a reality once again.

In a game of monumental comebacks, the Westlock Junior Rock fell just short against the Sherwood Park Titans at the Rotary Spirit Centre on Sunday, April 17 in Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League pre-season action.

Jaden Senkoe will represent Westlock when he laces up at the 2016 Alberta Cup in Canmore next weekend.