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The 2010 Edwin Parr Composite (EPC) Pacers officially ended their season with their annual wrap-up party, featuring a touch football game on the snowy EPC field before the dinner and thank-you presentations to end the evening.

In a hard fought, gritty effort against the first-place Onoway Ice Dogs of the North Central Hockey League (NCHL) on Friday night, the Athabasca Aces left town with a tough 7-5 loss.

Like the Athabasca midget ‘A’ Winterhawks, the bantam ‘AA’ Hawks’ bench has plenty of room for its skaters this season.

Although it was a gloomy and dark day outside on Sunday, it was a different story inside the Athabasca Regional Multiplex after a thrilling 5-4 overtime win for the Athabasca Aces over the Slave Lake Winterhawks.

It wasn’t exactly the start to the season the Athabasca Aces were looking for.

For six of the Edwin Parr Composite (EPC) Pacers, this Friday night’s exhibition game at home against Vegreville will be the last game of their high school football careers.

Football is a game of inches, and the Edwin Parr Composite School Pacers were taught exactly why that is Thursday night in a tough 28-14 loss to the Westlock T-Birds.

The Athabasca Aces are gearing up for their first game of the season this Saturday night against the Slave Lake Winterhawks, looking to get off to a fast start in their third season in the North Central Hockey League (NCHL).

It’s a game the EPC Pacers would like to forget about. The Pacers were shut out 49-0 in Cold Lake Friday night, a game in which their offense sputtered and had trouble holding onto the ball all game long.

After standing in the shadows for two years, Edwin Parr Composite (EPC) graduate Allister Rubik is making the most of an opportunity presented to him at the beginning of the Grande Prairie Regional College (GPRC) Wolves’ soccer season.