Local Sports

The boy’s and girl’s senior Jaguars played a hard-fought tournament over the weekend, earning themselves a second and third place. The girls played three games in round-robin against Clyde, Athabasca and Legal.

All 23 members of the Barrhead Atom teams will be sporting brand new jerseys thanks to Jonathan Sutherland’s winning entry to DuPont Pioneer’s Hockey Jersey Bonanza.

Hockey season in Westlock has started with the annual I Love Hockey event on Saturday. The event is designed for the Initiation division and is the perfect way for them to ease into hockey and learn some basic skills in the process.

Westlock’s Thunderbirds football team wasn’t a very nice guest when they travelled to Vegreville last Thursday to take on the Vortex.

The boy’s senior Gryphon volleyball team will be launching themselves into a hard fought battle this Thursday, but the challenge won’t come from an opposing school.

Barrhead couple Bert and Mary Dube, and Lac La Nonne couple Stan and Faye Schultz all have something in common: they are the proud champions of the 70 Plus 4 Western Provinces curling tournament.

The dream of finishing first in their division evaporated for the Athabasca Pacers with a 34-21 loss to Vermillion last Thursday.

The North Central Bulls’ first season in the Northern Alberta Midget ‘AA’ Hockey League got off to a rocky start with a pair of losses last weekend.

The Athabasca Pacers kept rolling with a 35-6 win over the R.F. Staples Thunderbirds in Westlock last Friday.

It was a golden weekend for Edwin Parr Composite’s senior high volleyball teams in St. Paul. Both the boys and girls teams took part in the tournament, and both made themselves at home, going unbeaten on their way to the gold.