Local Sports

The Athabasca Aces had a night to forget on Saturday. The team played host to the powerful Onoway Ice Dogs and ended up on the wrong side of a 9-1 beating.

The mark of a good hockey team isn't always simply wins and losses. Results may be king in major junior hockey or the professional leagues, but when it's young kids out on the ice, having fun is the first priority.

The girls and boys Senior Jaguars teams opened up their own invitational tournament with wins this past weekend, but both only managed to finish in third place.

A football team is in the making for Barrhead children between the ages of 10 and 12. Eighteen potential players have already expressed interest in the team, and another six are all that is needed to field the Barrhead peewee Raptors.

After not knowing what to expect competing against university-aged girls for the first time, Kellie Galliford did her hometown proud at the Golden Bears Invitational wrestling tournament on Jan. 8, winning a silver medal in her division.

R.F. Staples School’s senior girls’ basketball team returned to Westlock with a silver medal around their necks following a Jan. 7-8 tournament in Whitecourt.

The name of the game was ‘fun’ at last weekend’s 2011 Athabasca Mixed Open Bonspiel. The three-day event held at the Athabasca Regional Multiplex featured 24 teams, including both local curlers and others that traveled to Athabasca to take part.

What started as a blowout became a hard-fought victory for the Athabasca Aces Sunday. The club hosted the Legal Vipers at the Athabasca Regional Multiplex Sunday, and it didn’t take them long to assert their dominance.

Lacrosse is Canada’s official national summer sport, and has developed a strong following in the Westlock area. Starting Jan.

Misty Ridge Ski Hill welcomes 2011 with a bounding sense of optimism thanks to Barrhead County council and Mother Nature.