Local Sports

It was a back-and-forth kind of game for the Westlock Midget Warriors, who traded goals, and penalties, with Vegreville last Friday, only to fall 5-4. The Warriors hosted Vegreville Nov.

It was closer than they would have liked, but the Barrhead Midget 2 team managed to squeak by with a 7-5 victory in Saturday’s home game with the visiting Pembina Midget 1 squad.

The Barrhead Swim Club’s mission statement is creating swimmers for life and while it is still too early to tell to if that will happen, they are off to a strong start.

St. Mary School’s senior boys and girls volleyball team failed to advance past the round robin of the North Central 1A Zone championships played Nov. 16-17 at the Rotary Spirit Centre.

R.F. Staples School’s senior volleyball teams collected bronze at the North Central 3A Zone championships Nov. 16-17 in Barrhead. And with only the top-two teams advancing to this coming weekend’s provincial championships, the season is now over.

Close but no cigar, or in this case a gold medal. On Saturday, Nov.

Even if Sherri Hiemstra had tried, she couldn’t have scripted a better finish to her time with the Neerlandia Public Christian School Eagles junior high school girls’ volleyball team.

The Westlock Senior Warriors are in a dogfight for top spot in the North Central Hockey League following a 6-4 Nov. 10 home win over the Bonnyville Pontiacs.

The R.F. Staples girls earned bronze as 18 teams took to the courts at the Rotary Spirit Centre Nov. 7 to battle for regional junior high school volleyball supremacy and a chance to play in the zone tournament this week in Barrhead. R.

How often can a coach or team say they had a perfect season? If you said never you would be wrong because this year the Neerlandia Public Christian School Grade 7 and 8 boys triple ball Eagles team went undefeated this season cumulating in winning th