Local Sports

The North Central Bulls AA hockey club, which started up last year, is hosting evaluations and tryouts at the Lac La Biche Bold Centre Aug. 24 and 25.

Team Roping at the Schmidt House, also known as T.R.A.S.H, was bigger and better than ever this year. Located just outside of Barrhead, the camp is offered by team roping champion Ronald Schmidt.

Fans filled the stands to cheer on the competing cowboys and cowgirls at the Fort Assiniboine Hamlet Hoedown rodeo over the weekend. The turnout was about average, said one rodeo organizer and pickup man Jason Resch.

Athabasca native Meggan Franks, 29, is headed to Krynica-Zdrój, Poland, to run in the 29th World Mountain Running Championships this September.

Each August long weekend, approximately 1,400 relay team members and solo runners (and, some would argue, masochists) descend on the town of Grande Cache, population 4,000, to participate in the 125-kilometre, 24-hour North Face Canadian Death Race.

As treasurer of the Alberta Mounted Shooters Association, Eileen Hearn gets to witness a lot of explosive action.

Smashing, crashing, bashing, clashing, mashing, trashing … Slamming, whamming, ramming … What on earth is happening? There can only be one answer: the Demolition Derby has gatecrashed the weekend party to leave a monstrous mass of mangled metal.

Westlock’s Aaron McNelly won last weekend’s Men’s Open at the Westlock Golf Course. McNelly’s scores for each of the three rounds of the three-day tournament were 75, 77 and 79, resulting in a total of 231.

Edmonton’s Elaine Maloney is the winner of the 2013 Westlock and Barrhead Ladies Open golf tournament.

It has been a community staple for 15 years on a lot off of Highway 663 west of Highway 55, and for nearly 600 people this past weekend, the Rocky Ridge Stampede was "the wildest outdoor show on Earth.