Local Sports

Some fast paced, entertaining volleyball was played in Athabasca last weekend. Edwin Parr Composite played host to a senior high tournament.

Last Friday, the Athabasca Pacers saved their best for last in more ways than one. The local high school football team waited until late in their home game against Westlock to score the two touchdowns that earned them the 16-6 victory.

The Westlock Thunderbirds are no longer undefeated after dropping a 16-6 decision to the Athabasca Pacers last Friday. The loss also drops the T-Birds to second place in Tier 2 of the Wheatland Football League, behind the Vermilion Marauders.

The high-flying senior Gryphons boys soared to a volleyball tournament triumph in Spruce Grove over the weekend.

For the second tournament in a row, the St. Mary Sharks senior boys volleyball team walked off the court with a gold medal in hand. The weekend’s tournament at St.

The R.F. Staples senior girls volleyball team walked away with silver medal at the weekend’s tournament in Spruce Grove. The Thunderbirds were headed for gold when they lost out in the finals to Barrhead with scores of 25-19 and 25-18.

The Athabasca Jills women’s hockey team mixed things up with their second annual Jack and Jills Hockey Tournament last weekend.

Edwin Parr Composite’s Athabasca Pacers football team got into the winning column with a convincing victory over the Vegreville Vortex last Friday.

For much of Saturday the Barrhead Composite High School girls were unstoppable. They rolled over opponents with impressive ease to reach the semi-finals of the Junior Varsity Invitational Volleyball Tournament.

They scrapped for every ball, they threw themselves about, they made their fans proud … but in the end the young Gryphons succumbed to lack of experience and fatigue.