Local Sports

Randy Baker has two passions ñ skates and his pair of cockatoos.

Because she likes to try new things, Grade 9 student Rachelle Fullerton-Lee listened to Olds High School wrestling coach George Grant when he encouraged her to join the Spartans wrestling team in November.

The 34th edition of the Olds Farmers Bonspiel and the 31st year for the Farmerettes Bonspiel will get underway Feb. 11 and run until Feb. 15 at the Olds Curling Club.

A fairy tale come-from-behind win in their first game of the annual Spartan Classic hoops tournament propelled the host Olds High School senior girls basketball squad to a runner-up finish.

The Olds College mixed curling team will advance to the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference at Lakeland College in Vermilion after posting a 4-2 record at the winter regional bonspiel held from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2 at NAIT.

The Olds College women's volleyball team swept their rivals from Lethbridge College on Jan. 30 and Feb. 1, winning by scores of 25-20, 25-21, 25-13 and 25-14, 25-22, 25-22, respectively.

To help dig the club out of a debt of more than $100,000, the Olds Grizzlys are hoping to pre-sell 500 season tickets by early April for the 2014-15 Alberta Junior Hockey League season.

For 50 minutes, the Olds Grizzlys played nearly flawless shutout hockey against the visiting Drumheller Dragons on Jan. 31.

The 10-year-old had the teenager dead in his sights then let the ball go as hard as he could. Wham! Dwight Budden, coach of the Innisfail Junior Dodgeball Association (IJDA), goes out of the game. Again. ìI'm used to this,î said Budden.

The Innisfail Junior High Cyclone girls are running for the championship. ìTo dateÖî said coach Derek Baird, ìÖour girls are undefeated in the Central Western Alberta Junior High School Athletic Association (CWAJHAA) with seven wins and no losses.