Local Sports

The Athabasca Aces are almost ready to drop the puck on another season. The team will hit the ice for the first time in months on Sept. 12, when their conditioning/training camp opens at the Athabasca Regional Multiplex with an 8:30 p.m. workout.

Lorina Ball and her trusty horse Fancy make a pretty good team. They proved as much at the Edmonton Gymkhana Association Finals in Thorsby earlier this month, where the pair rode to an impressive second-place finish in barrel racing.

Good weather and lots of entertaining action could be found at the Westlock Golf Course during the Ladies' Open last weekend. The two-day event Aug. 11-12 was a spirited affair that saw 22 women challenge for this year's title.

Westlock's Gators swim club has set a new high water mark in sending nine swimmers to the Alberta Summer Swimming Association provincial meet this weekend in Edmonton. Competing at the regional meet at NAIT on Aug.

It’s almost time for the Athabasca Pacers to get back out on the gridiron.

There are lots of ways for adults to get active in Athabasca.

At 75, most athletes' sporting dreams are long behind them. They may enjoy a recreational round of weekend golf or go for a stroll, but the more serious stuff remains in scrapbooks and memories.

Darkness descends shortly after 7 p.m. An arc of fire blazes from the soil, half lighting the Sangudo arena. Behind it stands a shadowed line of cowboys, arms folded or hands on hips, their features barely visible in the flickering light.

For the second year in a row, Neerlandia resident Alvin Nanninga has claimed the Canadian Horseshoe Championship title in the Elders class.

Heavy metal fans enjoyed heavy-duty mayhem last Friday. We are talking about fans of mashed-up metal. Of the bashed, battered, beaten and buckled variety. Of the shattered, splintered and squashed sort. Of the pounded and pulverized kind.