Local Sports

INNISFAIL – There’s more to arm wrestling than meets the eye. “It’s also a team sport as well, not just an individual sport,” said Matt Mask, elite arm wrestler and president of the Red Deer Arm Wrestling Club.

INNISFAIL – The ninth annual Dallas Yarbrough Memorial Baseball Tournament was another success, with two Innisfail alumni teams sharing the top spot this year.

DIDSBURY - The Didsbury Aquajets summer swim team is back in the water for another season. The team has about 40 swimmers in the club this year from ages six to 17.

Former Old Grizzlys captain Chase Olsen is working out and helping at his parents' farm west of Olds as he prepares for the next stage in his life -- playing hockey for the Merrimack College Warriors, an NCAA Division 1 team just outside of Boston.

Young rodeo athletes from the district have been doing very well this season.

DIDSBURY - The future of the Didsbury Dragons 9-man football team appears uncertain, says longtime coach Mark Lefebvre.

Sundre Minor Ball is having a good season so far, the organization’s president said last week. Stacey Johnson said teams are out on the fields either playing games or practising during nearly every afternoon and evening of the week.

The Olds Grizzlys officially unveiled three new logos for the team just before tee-off time for its first annual Friends of the Grizzlys Classic golf tournament at the Olds Golf Club June 1. There are three logos altogether.

The Olds peewee Stingers won the gold medal in the Parkland Posse tournament in Edmonton, May 25-27. The team is now getting ready to host the Central Alberta novice playoffs, June 22-24.

Four youth from across Mountain View County are provincial champs in their categories and two placed second in the province among about 150 competitors in the Knights of Columbus Free Throw Championship.