Local Sports

Get ready to saddle up and rope the family down to the second Senior Pro Rodeo at the Barrhead Rodeo Grounds on June 16 and 17.

There may have only been three teams hitting the diamonds in Fort Assiniboine over the weekend, but the competition was high at the peewee county ball tournament June 7.

Dear Editor: My name is Morgan Vanleeuwen, and I am a grade nine student at Covenant Canadian Reformed School (CCRS). Recently our grade eight and nine classes attended a ball hockey tournament in Monarch.

The U18 Athabasca boys and girls tournament soccer teams have coasted their way through a pair of tournaments so far this season and are gearing up for the next challenge at the annual Camrose Night Classic June 13–15.

Athabasca’s Jessica McKenna placed third in the novice category at the Olympic Power Fitness Invitational in Edmonton May 31.

A group of Alberta’s best amateur golfers will arrive at the Athabasca Golf and Country Club on June 17 to compete in the Men’s Mid Amateur Championship. “We’re proud to be hosting it,” said Trevor Martin, board member for the country club.

Despite a rough start in the first round of their midget AA baseball season, the Athabasca Trappers are shrugging it off and looking ahead to round two, according to head coach Doug Steffes.

The spring football season is over in Westlock. On May 31, the Westlock Thunderbirds football team hosted its annual jamboree, bringing in teams from Vegreville and Whitecourt to get some game action in before the mandatory summer break.

Barrhead Composite High School hosted the junior high Divisional Track Meet last Tuesday. Students competed in several distance and sprinting running events, discus, shot put, javelin, high jump, triple jump, and long jump.

Westlock’s mixed U14 soccer squad has shown a series of strong performances this year, struggling only against Athabasca.