Local Sports

After not knowing what to expect competing against university-aged girls for the first time, Kellie Galliford did her hometown proud at the Golden Bears Invitational wrestling tournament on Jan. 8, winning a silver medal in her division.

R.F. Staples School’s senior girls’ basketball team returned to Westlock with a silver medal around their necks following a Jan. 7-8 tournament in Whitecourt.

The name of the game was ‘fun’ at last weekend’s 2011 Athabasca Mixed Open Bonspiel. The three-day event held at the Athabasca Regional Multiplex featured 24 teams, including both local curlers and others that traveled to Athabasca to take part.

What started as a blowout became a hard-fought victory for the Athabasca Aces Sunday. The club hosted the Legal Vipers at the Athabasca Regional Multiplex Sunday, and it didn’t take them long to assert their dominance.

Lacrosse is Canada’s official national summer sport, and has developed a strong following in the Westlock area. Starting Jan.

Misty Ridge Ski Hill welcomes 2011 with a bounding sense of optimism thanks to Barrhead County council and Mother Nature.

Westlock's Tier 2 Pee Wee Krusaders got a well-earned notch in the victory column after defeating the first-place Devon Drillers 5-4 last Monday night at the Jubilee Arena.

Christmas usually comes only once a year, but for the Barrhead Atom ‘A’ Hawks, Jan. 3 was as close to a second Christmas as they’ll get.

The members of Barr-head’s Blue Heron Bowl 55-Plus Triples couldn’t have been prouder to be among the best seniors bowling teams in Canada after they placed fourth at nationals.

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.