Local Sports

The thrill of the circus is coming to the Innisfail Twin Arena as local figure skaters put the final touch on their year-end program Big Top on Ice. The 49th annual ice show will take place Saturday, starting at 2 p.m.

The Olds College women's varsity basketball team was feted last week at the Ralph Klein Centre for winning the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference championship ñ and sent off to Truro, N.S., where they will compete this week for the Canadian title.

After a stellar performance at the 2013 55+ Alberta Winter Games Feb. 13-16, the Innisfail ladies carpet bowling team returned to the drop-in centre triumphant with bronze medals around their necks. “It feels wonderful,” said lead Denise Niegum.

Shooting towards the glass late on Friday, Feb. 15 in the sixth end against Notre Dame, Innisfail skip Courtney Rieberger launched a curling rock coming home with Sam Carr calling the line and Cassandra Livingstone and Jade Marshall sweeping.

The Central Alberta Amazons went down to Cowtown on the weekend and came back as first-round victors with a 3-1 win over the Calgary Warriors Feb. 2. “Overall we played well,” said Amazons coach Doug Demott. “The first game we had a slow start.

Despite losing three games to one in a best-of-five championship series, the Central Alberta Amazons have declared the 2012-2013 hockey season a success. "I couldn't be more proud of these girls," head coach Doug Demott said.

Amy Nixon, who threw third stones for the Shannon Kleibrink rink that earned a bronze medal for Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, was the keynote speaker at the wrap-up of the Olds Farmers and Farmerettes Bonspiel on Feb. 16.

The Olds College mixed curling team just couldn't make their last rock stick in extra ends and lost their bid for a bronze medal to Red Deer College 5-4 in the Alberta Colleges Athletics Conference (ACAC) 2013 championships on Feb. 24.

Thanks to a massive home win over the Grande Prairie Wolves on Feb. 22, the Olds College Broncos women's basketball team is heading to the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conferences finals for the first time ever.

Plans for the upcoming provincial hockey championship to be hosted at the Innisfail Twin Arena the first weekend in April have begun to materialize.