Local Sports

The junior varsity girls basketball team from Edwin Parr Composite went undefeated at their host tournament last weekend. The girls played four games last Friday and Saturday and won them all to claim the tournament championship.

The R.F. Staples Thunderbirds boys’ basketball team played several impressive matches during last weekend’s tournament in Barrhead and came home with a silver medal.

Local skier Kara Siegle earned a silver medal at the 2012 Alberta Winter Games Feb. 10-11, doing her fellow Tawatinaw Valley Freeriders and Westlock-area residents proud.

Another strong win has the Barrhead midget ‘AA’ Steelers heading up to Slave Lake in March for the Midget AA Minor provincial tournament. Taking on the Spruce Grove PAC Saints in front of a home crowd Feb.

It had all the makings of another classic matchup in the storied rivalry between the two towns. On one side were the Gryphons boys from Barr-head. On the other were the Thunderbirds from R.F. Staples in Westlock. And there could only be one winner.

Boyle’s bantam hockey players are blazing through the provincial playdowns. The team eliminated Lac La Biche 13-0 in the first round (a two-game, total points series) and the second round wasn’t much harder on them.

The 2011-12 North Central Hockey League season will be remembered as one of great highs and lows for the Athabasca Aces and their fans. They reached higher than they ever had before in finishing third in the seven-team league with a record of 10-9-1.

It wasn’t pretty, but they’ll take it. The Athabasca Peewee ‘A’ Hawks came out on top in Game One of their provincial series against Stony Plain by a score of 5-4 on Sunday in Athabasca.

The Athabasca Aces will still be looking for their first playoff series win when they begin their fifth season later this year.

Yell for yellow was the motto of Barrhead swim fans last weekend. For two days yellow became the favourite colour of every local parent, grandparent, aunt and uncle at the town’s swimming pool.