Local Sports

The St. Mary Girls basketball team was shutout at the home-hosted Cathy Mitchell Cup over the weekend, where the team finished in last place.

Westlock’s midget Sabres started its league playoff run on a positive note over the weekend, beating out Barrhead’s Renegades 5-4 Friday night.

As a sporting contest, this game was over after less than seven minutes. A rapid-fire three goals put the Steelers in complete control, sending the St. Albert Crusaders into a tailspin from which they could not recover.

Precious metal collectors the Senior boys Gryphons added to their lustrous haul last weekend. They returned from Devon with a gleam about them … from silver medals and pride.

The Athabasca Midget Hawks got the jump on Jasper in Game One of their provincial playoff series with a 5-1 win at home last Saturday.

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.

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.

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.