Local Sports

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The Athabasca Soccer Association’s U16 boys team put up a valiant effort in the Value Drug Mart Polar Cup in Edmonton this past week, despite being extremely undermanned.

After two imposing wins in Aggression MMA in Edmonton, Boyle native Tim Hague is getting his third shot in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

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.