Local Sports

Jason and Lyle Schaffrick won the Canadian Tire Angler’s Cup fishing derby in Slave Lake on Friday and Saturday, June 19-20. After the first day the boys were in third place with their first two fish having a combined weight of 7.

Ty Steinbring may not have been born with a golf club in his hand, but it was close. By the time the Barrhead native was three years-old he was already hitting the links with his first set of golf clubs.

Westlock has a little bit more gold in it after the local lacrosse team dominated the playoffs last week.

The Westlock Grey Lions enter their final month of regular season play with a 10-2 record after going 1-1 on the road last week.

The Westlock Grey Lions roared back after suffering their first defeat of the season the night before, and scored an 11-1 victory over the visiting Edmonton Brewers at Keller Field June 18.

The Westlock Junior Rock finished off their home schedule with two big weekend home wins over the Grande Prairie Junior Thrashers.

A couple that rodeos together stays together. Although there are no official stats on the subject, two Barrhead couples have shown that there just may be some truth to that statement.

Whispering Hills Primary School was bustling with soccer players from all over the region last Saturday, for the annual Athabasca Soccer Tournament.

Throughout their Tri-County Soccer Association season, Athabasca U14 Titans FC coach Glenn Martin has lamented the apparent lack of competition. Through nine league games, the Titans were undefeated with 41 goals for and only four against.

Athabasca teams claimed gold and bronze at the Tri-County Cup U10 tournament, hosted at Whispering Hills Primary School Saturday.