Local Sports

The Westlock Thunderbirds football team has dropped to a 1-3 record after a 35-7 home-turf loss to the Athabasca Pacers last Friday night.

The verdict on the Wildrose Rodeo Finals is in – a spectacular success. Barrhead Agricultural Society president Adolph Bablitz thanked people who flocked to the Agrena for the Sept 13-16 spectacle.

The Westlock Thunderbirds now sit with a 1-3 record in the Wheatland Football League after a 35-7 home-turf loss to the Athabasca Pacers last Friday night.

The Westlock Thunderbirds senior boys volleyball walked away from a Spruce Grove tournament with a silver medal after narrowly falling to Barrhead in the finals.

It took three tournaments, but the R.F. Staples senior boys volleyball team is finally a champion.

For a fourth-straight year, R.F. Staples’ senior girls volleyball team has left the Whitecourt tournament as champions.

The North Central Bulls Midget ‘AA’ team was in action at a tournament in Wainwright last weekend.

Two experienced local coaches are teaming up to bring the game of basketball to a new generation. Mark Francis and Wade Hicks are taking the lead on Athabasca Minor Basketball, a new program for kids in Grades 1-7 that will begin on Thursday, Oct.

Question: When does silver feel like gold? Answer: When you topple your keenest rivals to acquire it. Thus it was for the junior Gryphons boys on Saturday, who took down Westlock’s R.F.

As shifts go this was a long one – almost 12 hours.