Local Sports

Club basketball is making a comeback in the Mountain View area. The Central Alberta Basketball Club - Mountain View Region springs into action with a tournament-based schedule between May and June. Tryouts which were held March 27-30.

PENHOLD - The Central Alberta Amazons played their way to the Alberta Junior Female Hockey League finals this season but came up short and finished in second place.

INNISFAIL - The ear-splitting sounds of children enthusiastically anticipating year-end hockey awards night is something Stephen Bates knows all too well.

INNISFAIL - The Innisfail Female PeeWee Rotary Club Flyers wrapped up a great season at the end of March. The team won the Zone 4 championship title last month in a thrilling double overtime game.

JB Moen brought home the buckle in bull riding for Olds College after three days of competition at the 2017 Canadian College Rodeo Finals in Calgary March 31-April 1. The first-year student from Elrose, Sask.

The Sundre Mountainview Taekwondo Club has been extremely busy over the past three months attending tournaments and participating in promotion testing and training seminars.

Two special guests have been lined up for the Sundre Minor Hockey Association's second annual players versus coaches in tutus season windup game called Twinkle Toes.

A Bergen-area resident with ties to Sundre recently set a new world record as well as five national records during a powerlifting competition last month.

INNISFAIL - The town will join the rest of Alberta in celebrating the 2017 Alberta Hockey Hall of Fame (AHHF) inductees. Hockey Alberta and the Hockey Alberta Foundation recently announced the 2017 induction class.

He was known as "Pinball" because of his football style, but legendary CFL superstar Michael Clemons made it his speaking style Friday night (March 24) during his keynote address at the 2017 Olds College Gala.