Local Sports

INNISFAIL – After more than 30 years, the Innisfail Horseshoe Club held its last tournament at the original site. The annual event took place at the Innisfail horseshoe courts on May 25 and 26.

Bob Murray of Bowden, a former Olds College athletic director now working as manager of athletics at SAIT, has been named the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) Athletic Director of the Year.

Grade 7 École Deer Meadow School athlete Aislin Carrick literally ran away with four events during the Junior High Zones track meet in Didsbury last week. Carrick won the 100 metre (m), 200 m, 400 m, and 1,500 m races.

Changes are in the wind for the Olds Lacrosse Association (OLA). Sally Dolinski, who has served as the association's president for three years, is stepping down.

HER-LING IT - Leah Rowe of Olds Koinonia Christian School hurls the javelin during a junior high school track meet in Didsbury on May 23.

The Olds tykes lacrosse team had an incredible May long weekend. They went undefeated (3-0) in the round robin of a tournament in Leduc, ending up in the gold medal final against the Calgary Axemen. That final was a classic.