Local Sports

There are some high hopes at Olds High School for a great track and field season from the school's athletes.

The Innisfail Phantoms showed their dominant stripes as lacrosse action complete with bodychecks, crisp passing and stunning goals sent the season into high gear.

Three students attending Sundre High School (SHS) are sports stars in the community. Raised in Sundre, brothers Joris, Jelmer and Jitse vanden Hadelkamp each take pride in their athletic abilities.

The Olds High School Spartans boys soccer team was in tough against the Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School Raiders on May 9, losing 5-2 on the Spartans' field.

Myrl Goddard is an easily recognizable man around town.

The Olds Stingers came out on the wrong side of an 11-5 score against the Calgary Axemen-Mavericks on May 12 in Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League play. The Stingers got on the board first, with a marker by Shea Layden four minutes into the game.

Deer Meadow School sent six players to the South Central Zone Badminton Championships on May 2 in Banff and Canmore.

It was a battle of speed vs. size during the home opener for the Rockyview Silvertips lacrosse team at the Olds Sports Complex on May 5.

Reg Carrick, who led the Olds College women's varsity basketball team to a bronze medal in the national Canadian Colleges Athletic Association championship in March, will be returning to helm the team in September.

Local powerlifter Mark Oxer claimed second place in the 93-kilogram division of an Alberta Powerlifting Union competition in Calgary on April 20.