Local Sports

Olds residents Maeghan Wild and Lauren Roblee returned from the Alberta Winter Games in Spruce Grove on the weekend with positive results.

The Olds College women's Broncos varsity basketball team continued to show their dominance on the hardcourt last week with two victories, giving them a perfect 9-0 record to lead Pool A of the Alberta Colleges Athletic League standings.

Although final numbers aren't yet in, the Olds Grizzlys held a successful casino fundraiser on Feb. 4. Attendance numbers were “down from last year, but … it went over quite well,” said Tammy Moritz, business manager for the Grizzlys.

A total of nine skaters from the Olds Figure Skating Club competed in Carstairs Jan. 27 to 29 at ICE FEST, bringing home 10 medals from the competition.

The Olds Grizzlys lost a pair of tight games in Alberta Junior Hockey League action last week, dropping a 3-2 decision on Friday to the Canmore Eagles and a 2-1 contest to the Drumheller Dragons on Jan. 30 at the Olds Sports Complex.

The Jan. 28-29 weekend marked the end of the 2012 regular season for the Innisfail Eagles. The boys were on the road to face off for the last time against their rivals, the Sylvan Lake Admirals, for their fourth and final meeting.

The Olds College junior varsity women's basketball team dropped both their games at the Ralph Klein Centre over the weekend, losing 64-44 to the St.

About 110 current and former Olds College students came together on Jan. 29 for the annual alumni rodeo at the college. The competitors tried their hands at events ranging from pole bending to women's cow riding and saddle bronc.

In three weeks a group of 18 dancers will be strutting their stuff on stage in Disneyland. Between 11 and 17 years old, the girls have been practising their half hour non-stop routine at Joy's School of Dance.

Half-way through the basketball season the Innisfail Cyclones teams are looking good on the court and in the league standings. "Both teams are doing well," said Jeff Anderson, athletics director and vice-principal at Innisfail Jr,/Sr. High.