Local Sports

Calgary Flames player Curtis Glencross and an all-star rodeo cast will be riding roughstock at the Daines Rodeo Ranch on Aug. 22 to raise funds for Ronald McDonald House and the Hockey Alberta Foundation.

With mid-August upon us Innisfail and area footballers are getting ready for a gridiron fall. The Innisfail Minor Football Association (IMFA) has been putting peewee and bantam players through the paces since Aug.

The Innisfail Dolphins took another run at the provincial championships that were held in Edmonton this month.

Olds Grizzlys head coach Brett Hopfe is excited for the upcoming Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) season, especially when it comes to the rookies.“To be quite honest, it's been one of our best rookie camps in a long time.

Innisfail horseshoe superstar pitcher Myrna Kissick is going to Canadian Nationals one more time but she's not going alone.

The Innisfail Peewee AA Indians are Baseball Alberta Tier 2 provincial champions.

The Innisfail Merchants are back at home after representing Alberta in in the Western Canadian Baseball Association Jr. AAA championships held over the weekend in Winnipeg.

The Midget AA Tier II Olds Spitfires are provincial champions.They beat the Edmonton Angels 7-4 in the final on Sunday, Aug. 3 in Okotoks.This is the first Olds Midget AA provincial baseball championship, as far as Head Coach Keith Klinck knows.

The Mavericks elite lacrosse team won a bronze medal in the midget division at the USBOX Lacrosse Nationals tournament, held in Irvine, Calif. from August 1 to 3.

Three Sundre men qualified to play in the Alberta Senior Men's Golf Championship held in Whitecourt last week. All three of them made it to the second day of the three-day tournament. "I was very poor the second day, I was OK the first day," said Sundre resident Les Swelin. "It's just one of those things. That's the way golf is." His score was 74 on the first day and 85 on the second day, for a total score of 159. He started golfing at age seven and still enjoys the game at age 64.