Local Sports

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.

Three Westlock wrestlers brought home a total of four medals after a successful performance at the Highwood Classic in High River over the weekend.

Westlock-area athletes failed to make the podium at the Alberta Winter Games skiing and snowboarding events hosted at the Tawatinaw Valley Ski Hill Friday and Saturday.

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.

It was a weekend when everyone left the Agrena a winner.

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.

The Athabasca Aces have the Legal Vipers on the ropes in their North Central Hockey League first round playoff series.

The atmosphere was electric at the seventh annual EPC Cheerfest at the Athabasca Regional Multiplex last Saturday. The Rotary Fieldhouse was filled with raucous cheer fans and 20 talented teams from around the province.