Local Sports

The Western Elite Championships is a premier volleyball competition for 16U and 17U aged athletes. Athletes and their coaches representing the four western provinces come together, this year in Edmonton, and compete in a three day long tournament.

The Midget Orioles season came to an end after losing to the Coronation Royals in the semifinals of the AA tier three provincial championships in Barrhead on Sunday, July 27, 2014.

The Paddle River Golf Course was crawling with golfers of all ages last week when the club hosted their anuual Young and Old tournament. Twenty teams participated in the event, which is almost twice the turnout the course saw last year.

Nikolas Koberstein, an 18-year-old Barrhead resident, has taken the first step to achieving his dream of playing in the National Hockey League (NHL).

After steamrolling the competition and dominating their division in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League, the Westlock Junior Rock were stopped in their tracks at the league championship last weekend.

Going into the all-star break in the North Central Alberta Baseball League, the Westlock Red Lions are near the top of the pack.

Kevin Danyluk achieved his best finish to date in the Calgary Stampede Heavy Horse Pull’s middleweight category last Saturday night: second place.

The Athabasca ASA won silver at the U18 boys tier four rural soccer provincials in Vermilion, but the glittering hardware was not necessarily the greatest achievement of the three-day tournament last weekend.

The stands were full at the 13th annual Highridge Rodeo, which took place Saturday, July 12 beginning at 1 p.m. Spectators cheered cowboys and cowgirls from several local areas including Highridge, Barrhead, Westlock, Clyde, Mayerthorpe, and Jarvie.

The Barrhead Orioles defeated the Edmonton Athletics 11-6 in senior men’s AA North Central Alberta Baseball League (NCABL) action on Friday, July 11, 2014.