Local Sports

The Athabasca Rotary Club is inviting the community to the Sportsman’s Dinner at the Athabasca Regional Multiplex on April 27. The club has hosted a number of such dinners in recent years, each of them featuring a special guest speaker.

The Harlem Crowns were a hit in Athabasca last week. The team of standout basketball players brought their incredible skills and comedic stylings to Edwin Parr Composite on Jan.

It may not have been the gold medal they were hoping for on their home court, but the BCHS Senior Jags girls basketball team pulled out a bronze medal performance in their first tournament action of the year over the weekend.

A broken ice plant wasn’t enough to dampen the spirits at the Barrhead Curling Rink over the weekend when more than 100 curlers and curling fans descended on Barrhead for the ladies bonspiel.

Westlock-area fun hockey teams certainly lived up to their title last weekend at the Jubilee Arena, where the Westlock Fun Hockey Association’s Canadiens hosted eight other clubs.

The Westlock Wrestling Club is celebrating victory after a trio of girls returned home with gold medals after a tournament in Edmonton last week.

The R.F. Staples senior boys basketball team entered the new year on fire, taking home gold in Lac La Biche and winning the consolation final in Fort Saskatchewan over the weekend.

The level of competition at the Westlock Curling Club was high last weekend for the Town and Country Bonspiel, which ran Jan. 6-8.

They were latecomers to the party, and were not even initially invited. They only showed up because one of the guests could not make it.

Barrhead’s Corissa Blake continues to shine on the ice, having recently been named a member of the Zone 5 female hockey team for the upcoming Alberta Winter Games Feb. 9-12 in Parkland County. Tryouts were held in Leduc Dec.