Local Sports

When it comes to young hockey players, you can’t go wrong when you start with the basics and having fun. That’s Atom B Seahawks head coach Brett Phillips philosophy as far as how he is teaching his team.

Having a number of football players on your team can sometimes be a good thing. That’s what the Edwin Parr Composite senior boys basketball team is looking at to start the season, one that head coach Wade Hicks considers a positive.

The Clyde Curling Club may be down, but they’re by no means out.

The Westlock Warriors now sit atop of the North Central Hockey League standings following a hard-fought 4-3 victory on the road over the Morinville Kings Nov. 29.

A win and a tie against the first- and second-place teams in the 1660 Hockey League last weekend will bump the Westlock Tier 3 Midget Warriors up a couple spots in the standings.

A win doesn’t have to be pretty, which was a good thing for the Westlock Senior ‘AA’ Warriors last weekend in their North Central Senior Hockey League games.

Most teams playing at the community level are determined to do one thing well and that is get the players to learn the fundamentals of hockey.

It may have come as a bit of surprise, but Keegan Kanzig is happy to be a part of the Calgary Hitmen.

Volleyball only ended on the weekend and basketball is already heating up at Edwin Parr Composite. Practices for the senior girls and boys teams began more than a week ago and things are looking fairly good on both sides of the court.

It was all fun and games when it came to this sport, on Friday, Nov. 21 at the Barrhead Agrena. FCSS turned to the Barrhead Midget Steelers and a team of various businesses and people who work in the community, to get the crowd excited about toys.