Local Sports

Athabasca Midget 1 Hawks took a pair of losses in home games at the Athabasca Regional Multiplex arena against the Battle River Knights and Devon Drillers Jan. 12-13. Hawks vs. Knights The Jan.

Warriors’ Nic Bourgeois looks for an open teammate to pass to during the club’s Jan. 12 5-2 home loss to the Red Deer Rustlers. The club plays in Red Deer and Bonnyville next weekend to close out the regular season.

St. Mary School’s Jenna Schwarz drives to the hoop during the Romes’ Classic Jan. 11 at the Rotary Spirit Centre. The senior girls finished second, falling 54-51 to Thorsby in the Jan. 12 final. St.

The Gryphons senior girls basketball team captured the gold medal eight-team home tournament hosted by Barrhead Composite High School Jan. 12 in dramatic fashion.

The result was never in doubt. The Barrhead Steelers scored five first period goals on way to a 10-1 shellacking of the Wetaskiwin Icemen in their first game of the new year on Jan. 11.

The area’s youngest hockey stars were on display Jan. 5 at the Rotary Spirit Centre at the 10-team Westlock Warriors Timbits Initiation Tournament.

Westlock’s Senior ‘AA’ Warriors are heading back to the drawing board after a rough 6-2 loss to the Devon Barons Jan. 4 at the Rotary Spirit Centre.

The Barrhead Bantam 1 Pirates won by the skin of their teeth on Saturday at the Barrhead Agrena, where they downed the visiting Leduc Bantam 1 squad 5-4.

Call it a case of “turkey fever.” The Barrhead Midget 2 Renegades kicked off the new year by going 1-1 in two home games at the Barrhead Agrena on Friday and Saturday.

The Barrhead Steelers go into the New Year sporting a perfect 12-0-0 record, thanks in part to a dominant performance. On Dec. 21, the Steelers defeated the Fort McMurray Junior Oil Barons in midget action at the Barrhead Agrena.