Local Sports

The Edwin Parr Composite (EPC) Pacers football team will soon gear up for a new season with some fresh faces and a full roster of around 30 players. On Aug. 22 from 6:30 - 9 p.m. and all day on Aug.

Canadian hockey legend Darryl Sutter will be a guest speaker at a Barrhead hockey conditioning camp in August. It is hoped he will meet children and parents, as well as attend an off-ice skills centre.

Britannie Ouimet is a national bronze medal-winning bantam lacrosse player. Ouimet was a member of Team Alberta at the 2013 Canadian Bantam Midget and Junior Female Lacrosse Championships in Halifax, N.S. on July 23-28.

A strong win over the two-time reigning national champions was the highlight of the Westlock senior Red Lions’ foray at the Canadian National Oldtimers Baseball Championships over the weekend.

She may be a King, but at cycling she could easily pass for a queen. Sangudo’s Eleanor King-Lamoureux carried the hopes of the Barrhead area in cycling at the Alberta 55-plus Summer Games. And she did not disappoint.

When it comes to golf, Barrhead’s Norm Miller is a man with a golden touch. The 70-year-old struck gold last weekend after two impressive rounds at the Alberta 55-plus Summer Games.

The Athabasca Golf and Country Club celebrated its 50th anniversary with a tournament last Wednesday. More than 180 golfers attended the event.

Though medals eluded them, three Athabasca soccer teams held their own at the Alberta Soccer Association Outdoor Youth Tier IV City Provincials July 26–28 at the Lillian Osborne High School soccer fields in Edmonton.

A successful season for Westlock’s junior Rock lacrosse squad has ended with the team dropping its championship series 2-0 to the Medicine Hat Sun Devils. The Rock took on Medicine Hat in a best-of-three series in St.

Years before, Ernest Ernst had been part of a floor curling team that won gold at the Alberta 55-Plus Winter Games, which enabled them to compete nationally.