Local Sports

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.

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.