Local Sports

After years of tough road trips to places as far afield as Jasper and Athabasca, the Westlock & District Minor Hockey League has joined a league with a far more favourable travel schedule.

After two imposing wins in Aggression MMA in Edmonton, Boyle native Tim Hague is getting his third shot in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

The Athabasca Soccer Association’s U16 boys team put up a valiant effort in the Value Drug Mart Polar Cup in Edmonton this past week, despite being extremely undermanned.

Former Westlock resident Jesse Stymiest is moving onwards and upwards in his hockey career, having netted himself a spot on the Lindsay Muskies of the Ontario Junior Hockey League.

Although the Barr-West Pirates dropped last Monday’s game 8-2 to the Slave Lake Thunder, coach Perry Kulmatyski said he was proud of how his team played against some pretty stiff competition.

The Athabasca Aces have played in the past month the way they would have liked to all season.

Fifteen-year-old Maya MacIsaac-Jones has quickly become a force to be reckoned with in the sport of cross-country skiing after an impressive season last year.

The Westlock Bantam Warriors held off a strong effort from the visiting Smoky Lake Stars, proving they intend to make some noise as the season progresses.

Even in a hockey game between the most bitter of rivals, like Edmonton-Calgary or Westlock-Barrhead, chances are the least popular people on the ice are the ones in the striped shirts.

The Edwin Parr senior girls basketball team isn’t too shabby. The EPC Angels won the bronze medal over the Fort McMurray Trappers with a 55-48 win in their home tournament this past weekend.