Local Sports

Innisfail and area athletes competed in the 2014 Alberta Summer Games in Airdrie and brought home a harvest of medals from outstanding performances.

The best way to describe the atmosphere as members of the Northern Lights vaulting squad practise their routine in the van der Sluijs dairy equestrian building is calming.

Strong pitching performances played a big part in the Olds Spitfires mosquito Tier 1 A team capturing their league's provincial championship on July 27.Mosquito Tier 1 A baseball includes players between the ages of eight and 11.

There was no shortage of grinds, flips, ollies, slides and fakies at the Olds Skateboard Park as more than 50 participants took part in BMX and skateboarding competitions as part of the third annual Hay City Slam on July 26 and 27.

The 2014 Alberta Summer Games were held from July 24 to 27 in Airdrie and several local athletes came away with a bounty of medals.

Innisfail's Hidde Geurts is a national swimming champion with eight medals to prove it.

You can hear the disdain in the voice of Jamie Mulholland, an Olds soccer coach, at the mentioning of Uruguay's Luis Suarez chomping down on an opponent at the World Cup this summer.

Organizers of the Bowden Daze rodeo are "in shock" after a horse died during the Central Alberta Rodeo Association (CARA)-sanctioned rodeo on July 26.

It wasn't the ending they wanted, but the Olds Stingers finished their most successful season in team history with silver medals after losing 16-12 to the Crowsnest Pass Ravens in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League's junior B Tier III finals on July

The Olds Spitfires did not medal at Baseball Alberta's 2014 Bantam AA Tier IV Provincial Championships but that doesn't mean they didn't gain from the experience.