Local Sports

The Olds Grizzlys lost a pair of tight Alberta Junior Hockey League games last week, including a 6-5 decision to the Calgary Mustangs Thursday and a 3-2 contest Friday to the defending champion Brooks Bandits.

The Olds High School Spartans football team outlasted their counterparts from George McDougall High School of Airdrie 18-7 on Thursday at Normie Kwong Park.

With only two gymnasiums for local students to use for physical education classes teachers have to be creative. Luckily Innisfail Horseshoe Club president Myrna Kissick offered to bestow the knowledge of her game on the younger generation.

A storm is brewing under the faint green tint to the light in the aquatic centre.

The Sundre Capital Pressure Bison football team opened the 2012 season at home with a 28- 21 win over Edmonton on Saturday. The team is now 1 -1 for the season. The squad plays at home on Saturday against Didsbury.

The Olds Peewee Huskies ran into a strong Lacombe Explosion team on Saturday at Normie Kwong Park, losing by a 51-0 score in Central Peewee Football League action.

Wally Genz surveys his fresh crop of peewee football players. One row stands shoulder to shoulder, the next on one knee in front. “We might not win every game…” says Genz, musing calmly.

Despite getting outplayed badly against league rival Drumheller Composite High School Titans on Saturday at Normie Kwong Park, the Olds High School Spartans managed a couple of touchdowns with less than two minutes remaining in the game to build on t

The Olds Grizzlys split a pair of weekend games to open their 2012-13 Alberta Junior Hockey League season, losing the season and home opener 5-4 to the Spruce Grove Saints on Friday and beating the Canmore Eagles 5-2 on Saturday in front of 684 fans

Breanna Van Rooyen will be travelling to South Africa in October as part of Team Canada's equitation World Cup team, competing in the sport's highest-level competition.