Local Sports

For the second time in his career, Olds' Ryan Dodd is at the top of the water-skiing world.Dodd won gold at the 2014 Masters Canada, held from May 23 to 25 at Lake Robin in Pine Mountain, Ga.

Innisfail Junior/Senior High School track athletes are going for the gold to be tops in the province.

The Innisfail Phantom teams are close to wrapping up their seasons in preparation for the Spirit of the Sticks tournament to be held from June 6 to 8.

The Innisfail Minor Football Association (IMFA) peewee and bantam teams are preparing for the 2014 football season.

The Innisfail Indians fell 9-3 to the visiting Acme Pirates May 21 during the Parkland Baseball League (PBL) team's first game of the 2014 season on its home diamond.

When on the mat, Olds' Amber Maschke only has herself to count on.Now, however, the 19-year-old wrestler is asking for help from her community as she sets her sights on becoming the junior woman's world champion in the 55-kilogram weight category.

Innisfail athletes from grades 7 to 12 are hitting the track in preparation for the 2014 track and field season. The track at Innisfail Jr/Sr High School was a busy locale last week with athletes practising as early as 7:30 a.m.

With the arrival of improving spring weather the Innisfail Indians players are finally hitting their own field of dreams for the 2014 season.

All the mud leftover on local roads, alleys and fields from early May's miserable weather almost seems like a prelude to the third annual Community Learning Campus Mud Run coming this September.

Over the past few years, Olds' Danielle Lappage has tried qualifying for the Canadian senior national wrestling team only to finish second to the same competitor.