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For the second year running, the Barrhead Midget Blackhawks have successfully skated their way to being the zone 3 champions. The girls had a tough game when they played in Onoway Wednesday, Feb. 6.

A week removed from his teamís elimination from the North Central Hockey League playoffs, Athabasca Aces head coach Curtis Creaser is still disappointed with the outcome. ìI thought we should have advanced further in the playoffs.

Members of the Athabasca Rapids Swim Club are pushing themselves and reaching new heights this season.

The senior boys Predators basketball team overcame a short bench to notch an im pressive third-place finish at their home tournament last weekend. Teams from around the zone convened at Edwin Parr Composite for the tournament on Saturday and Sunday.

The North Central Hockey League season came to an unceremonious end for the Athabasca Aces on the weekend.

With a medal draped around her neck, Sarah Lutz could reflect on the 6th annual Nordic Chill Swim Meet and declare: mission accomplished.

To say she put up a fight is an understatement. Haley Heffel competed in a total of six wrestling matches at the Butterdome high school wrestling tournament in Edmonton last Saturday, Feb. 2, and brought home a gold medal.

A fourth-place finish isn’t quite what teams want when they host a tournament, but that’s just where the St. Mary Sharks senior boys basketball team ended up over the weekend. Hosting and competing in the 2013 edition of the W.J.

The weather was warm, the snow was deep and more than 100 snowmobilers made the trek north to Long Island Lake for the Pembina Driftbusters poker rally last Saturday.

Senior ‘AA’ hockey may be returning to Westlock if one hockey father gets his way. Joe Kuhar appeared in front of Westlock town council Jan.