Local Sports

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.

A pair of wins last week bumped the Westlock Red Lions up two spots from fourth- to second-place in the North Central Alberta Baseball League.

The Westlock Rock earned their place in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League’s Junior ‘B’ Tier II North Conference Championships after sweeping the North-Central Division series last weekend.

The Jarvie Jaguars’ undefeated regular season and playoff run came to an abrupt end last week in the championship final of the Edmonton Youth Softball Association.

Westlock’s U14 softball team’s strong performance wasn’t enough; they unfortunately came home empty-handed and winless from the provincial ‘C’ championship tournament in Calahoo last weekend.

A large crowd numbering over 300 people turned out on Saturday for the Sangudo Bull Bash, an evening of entertainment devoted entirely to bull riding.