Local Sports

With spring slowly arriving, Westlock residents should start hearing the sweet crack of the bat as the Red Lions gear up for another quest to be named North Central Alberta Baseball League champions.

A local boy brought home a silver medal from a national wrestling competition last weekend, beating out more than 30 other competitors. Austin Tremblay, a Grade 10 student at R.F.

Players, coaches, volunteers, families and friends packed the gym to watch as plaques, medals and certificates were handed out as the Barrhead Minor Hockey Association held their annual awards night on April 13 in the east gym at Barrhead Composite H

When you mix cycling with fun and friendship, you have a recipe for good times. The “Women on Wheels” cycling club will climb aboard their aluminum horses beginning May 7, for an exciting season of exercise and good memories.

Athabasca’s young hockey players had plenty of hardware to take home last week. Though hockey season is over, it’s not forgotten as the 2010-11 season was celebrated last Thursday with the Athabasca Minor Hockey Awards Night.

Football season isn’t as far away as it seems. The Edwin Parr Composite Pacers may not be slated to play any ‘real’ games until September, but the players won’t be waiting that long to get back in action.

For many local baseball players who spent time with the Red Lions, getting older and starting a family can often spell the end of their baseball career.

The third annual R.F. Staples Dress-Up Basketball Game will give the Westlock Food Bank a healthy boost this year by bringing in donations of 170 pounds of food and $1,000 in cash donations.

For a martial artist, the journey to mastery is like climbing a mountain that has no summit. No matter how high you climb, there will always be a higher plateau beckoning you.

It was a long winter, but the curling action never cooled off in Boyle. The Boyle Curling Club closed its season with the mixed bonspiel on the first weekend of April.