Local Sports

PENHOLD - Penhold Minor Soccer is gearing up for another season. The local organization recently held a fundraising barbecue to help raise money for the season that begins on May 1.

Three local gymnasts represented the Olds Gymnastics Club at the provincial championships last weekend (April 7-9) for the first time in the club's history.

2017 Artistic Gymnastics Provincial Championships April 7–9 (Fort McMurray) Soulayah Petersen (Olds Gymnastics Club) Women’s JO 6 (2004) – All-around (11 th place) Vault (10 th ), uneven bars (18 nd ), beam (4 th ), floor (9 th ) Ch

Greens good to go at golf course The course at the Olds Central Highlands Golf Club opened for the 2017 season last Wednesday (April 5), with a newly redone third hole that will be complete for the May long weekend.

INNISFAIL - Innisfail hockey players Makenna Doel, Jayda Thompson and Samantha Thompson of the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs helped their team win their first gold medal and league title at the Alberta Female Hockey League Midget Elite provincial champ

INNISFAIL - Innisfail's Jordyn Shewchuk is ready to take her game to the next level.

Despite spring's late arrival, the Sundre Soccer Club held its first practices of the season last week. "The teams have already been made," said Tamara Beecraft, club treasurer as well as parent volunteer coach.

The Sundre Curling Club is a great organization with a fantastic rink that makes available to the community an affordable and fun leisure activity for all ages, said the group's president.

Three Olds gymnasts are headed to the provincial championships in Fort McMurray this weekend (April 7-9), a first in the club's history.

Sundre's arena was filled Friday night with the cheers of excited hockey fans who came out for the minor hockey association's second annual Twinkle Toes players-versus-coaches season windup game, which this year featured two former Calgary Flames.