Local Sports

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.

It was a golden weekend for two of the four senior high volleyball teams in Westlock. The R.F.

After a hard-fought battle last Friday, the Westlock Thunderbirds earned a 12-10 victory over the Vermilion Marauders and secured first place in Tier 2 of the Wheatland Football League. Both teams went into the Sept.

After a tight round of competition at last weekend’s Prince Philip Games (PPG) competition, local pony-riding team Full Throttle brought home a bronze medal.

The Westlock Thunderbirds improved to 2-0 on the year following a 32-8 Friday-night drubbing of the Vegreville Vortex.

Typically when you think of a rodeo, you pictures men and women in jeans and 10-gallon hats while riding horses, but it’s not often that you think of a rodeo where the animal being ridden is an all-terrain vehicle.

Barrhead brothers Grady and Quentin Branden are celebrating a double rodeo triumph. While Grady won the team roping title in the Wildrose Rodeo, his 14-year-old brother Quentin took top honours in the junior breakaway.