Local Sports

Going into round four of the Sun Life Financial Alberta Amateur golf championship one would think it was all but over.

Players on the PGA Tour Canada made a recent pit stop at the Innisfail Golf Club to mentor a handful of star-struck junior golfers in the fine art of the game.

Local golfers Chrissie and Alan Finch played well at the Special Olympics Summer Games held in Devon last month, but failed to qualify for Team Alberta at the national games to be held next summer in Vancouver.

Local wrestler Amber Maschke won two of three matches that she competed in at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile from July 10 to 15, taking bronze in the 55-kilogram women's junior freestyle competition. “I thought that I wrestled really well.

After only taking up BMX racing in November, Olds' Gavin Caskey has won his first gold medal in the sport.

Golfer Jason Thiels of Olds finished in a tie for 28 at Alberta Golf's Alberta Men's Amateur Championship held from July 16 to 19 at the Sundre Golf Club. Thiels finished with a 303 total (+15) over 72 holes.

Olds will co-host the Alberta Bantam Double-A Tier 1 provincial baseball championships with Acme from July 26 to 28.

The Olds junior B Stingers lacrosse team didn't make it past their first and only playoff game, losing 16-10 to the Calgary Axemen-Mavericks on July 6.

Emily Lucas and Mackenzie Ramsell have only pursued track and field for a year but already they are competing against Canada's elite.

Sundre Minor Ball's bantam girls team placed (update on Monday) in the home provincial tournament over the weekend. It could be the first time in history that Sundre has hosted a bantam girls minor ball provincial tournament.