Local Sports

Two local girls who were part of Team Alberta that won the hockey gold medal at the Canada Winter Games in Halifax in late February were enshrined in the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame on June 11.

The Olds skatepark officially opened on Saturday with dozens of youth showing up with their bikes and boards to christen the facility.

The 11th annual Olds Rotary Club Golf Tournament, held June 17, was just shy of a sellout, with 116 players teeing it up at the Olds Golf Club.

U-16 girls beat Didsbury to make playoffs The Sundre U-16 Girls team beat Didsbury 2 - 1 in overtime last week to qualify for playoffs in Three Hills this weekend. Joleen Stermann got both Sundre goals, including one in overtime.

Two local girls who were part of Team Alberta that won the hockey gold medal at the Canada Winter Games in Halifax in late February were enshrined in the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame on June 11.

The last week of spring training for the Cyclones Football teams has come to an end and players and coaches are now looking forward to September when they will suit up to begin the 2011 season.

Over 650 athletes from 32 teams competed in the Innisfail Spirit of the Sticks Lacrosse Tournament over the weekend with games spanning three days and played in two different towns.

Innisfail baseball fans had plenty to cheer about during the finals of the second annual Dallas Yarbrough Memorial Tournament this weekend.

After the track and field senior zone meet last Wednesday at Glenmore, seven out of the 12 Olds High School athletes who competed are on their way to provincials. “The zone meet went ahead. It was wet but very bearable,” said OHS coach Adam Hogarth.

After a close but harrowing loss against Chestermere, the OHS Spartans senior girls rugby team is looking back at a season full of highlights and tragedies, a twisting series of events with all the makings of good cinema. “We lost a very tight one.