Local Sports

Get your skates on, minor hockey players. Anyone registering before Aug. 1 will receive a 10 per cent discount, thanks to the $40,000 bonanza from Barrhead Minor Hockey Association’s January gala.

A career in college basketball has Alex Speers excited about the future.

A pair of Edwin Parr Composite’s volleyball standouts is ready to take the sport to a new level.

Jay Onrait’s adventures in broadcasting are about to take him south of the border.

Athabasca’s Gaetano Minto is a multi-sport athlete with talent (and confidence) to spare. A valued member of both the basketball and football teams at Edwin Parr Composite, the Grade 11 student tends to excel at whatever sport he tries.

After a winter that didn’t seem to want to end, spring and its warm weather is finally upon Barrhead. For golf enthusiasts, this is wonderful news.

A baker’s dozen worth of runs helped the Westlock Red Lions to a season-opening win over the Sturgeon Paladins last Wednesday evening.

Peewee hockey players in Westlock and across Alberta will no longer be allowed to deliver body checks after Hockey Alberta eliminated body checking in that age level.

They are used to confronting life’s challenges. After all, one is an FCSS family violence worker, the other a mental health therapist.

It’s time to dust off your driver and swing into spring at the Paddle River Golf &Country Club. The 62-year-old club teed off its new season last Wednesday – the first day of May – after a winter layoff that seemed to last forever.