Local Sports

As she took to the mat, Danielle Lappage flopped, scrambled but refused to yield. Coach George Grant had instructed his wrestlers in practice that day to pin each other. Danielle was in Grade 8.

Several local swimmers from a number of clubs won medals at the Alberta Summer Games in Leduc last weekend. Wesley Wilks, 15, lives in Didsbury, and was competing for Zone 2.

After a lengthy, successful career racing chuckwagons, a local veteran cowboy has decided to hang up the reins to focus on his family and new business. “It's just time for a change,” Rae Croteau Jr.

Olds' U-14 Pistols ended their season looking back at how far they've come. At Softball Alberta's B Provincials in Edmonton this month, the girls finished with silver medals.

It's not often that Laura Klinck doesn't finish first at a track and field meet.

The Olds Mavericks are in Andy Sweetman's words, "celebrating the heck" out of their Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League championship victory from the weekend.

Innisfail will showcase some of its finest talent in the 2016 Sun Life Financial Alberta Men's Amateur Championship.

Twenty-six young Albertans were able to attend the National Junior High School Finals Rodeo in the United States, and two of them were from Innisfail. Amy Shuckburgh and Kyla Kelly went to Lebanon, Tenn.

The annual Innisfail Sportsmen's Dinner was another great success, bringing in almost $10,000 for the Canadian Pro-Rodeo Sport Medicine Team.

The prize for the second annual Professional Bareback Challenge at Bowden Daze is a lot bigger this year, says Keith Bailey, president of the Bowden Ag Society, the group which organizes the event.