Local Sports

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.

When one thinks of sports that are featured at winter games, what usually comes to mind are skiing, hockey, curling and other sports that need cold temperatures.

After splitting their two games over the weekend, the Barrhead midget ‘AA’ Steelers remain in top spot in the Northern Alberta Midget AA Hockey League.

Westlock-area athletes competing in the 2012 Alberta Winter Games skiing events will get some top-level competition in their own backyard this weekend.

The St. Mary Sharks put up a good effort, but could not defeat their rivals from Parkland in the gold-medal match of the W.J. Kallal tournament at the Shark Tank last weekend.

The Alberta Snowmobile Association Jamboree will go ahead this coming weekend, Feb. 3-5, despite an uncooperative weather pattern that has seen more freezing rain than snow.

A third period comeback not only netted Westlock’s Midget Sabres a win, but returned the club to top spot in Tier 3 of the 1660 Hockey League.