Local Sports

The AHJL hockey season has concluded for the Olds Grizzlys and the Albertan spoke to head coach Joe Murphy to reflect on the season. The team compiled six wins, 51 losses and three overtime losses.

Dr. Murray Rodych of the Wild Rose Medical Centre in Olds served as the medical team lead for all of the Calgary venues during the Canada Winter Games. Although the Games, which took place Feb.

Canada's four-person Special Olympics bowling team, featuring Olds resident Mark Mengersen, earned a silver medal Saturday, March 16 in the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.

INNISFAIL – There’s more girls playing hockey than ever before. Here in Innisfail that’s due in part to the work of the Innisfail Minor Hockey Association and the annual girls hockey camp.

INNISFAIL – Junior curlers stand to benefit from a recent EQUS grant.

INNISFAIL – Excitement filled the air as skaters took to the ice on March 17 for the Innisfail Skating Club’s annual skating carnival, Skating with Soul.

DIDSBURY -- Although they fell short of making the Heritage League finals, the Mountain View Colts put up a good fight against the league's top team in the semifinal.

DIDSBURY -- The Didsbury Mixed Bonspiel took place on March 8-10 at the Didsbury Curling Club. The mixed bonspiel, which is the last bonspeil of the season for the club, featured 12 local teams competing over three days.

The Olds Koinonia Christian School (OKCS) senior girls basketball team are provincial 1A champions — for the first time in the school's history, according to spokesman Ken Terpstra.

The Olds College Broncos women's basketball team are Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) national champions. In the gold medal game on Saturday night (March 16), the Broncos beat the host Cégep de Sainte-Foy Dynamiques 74-69.