Local Sports

Never look a gift horse in the mouth when playing the red- hot two-time defending league champions.

Former neighbours from Okotoks squared off in Black Diamond with a spot at the Junior men’s southerns on the line and the elder statesman walked away with bragging rights.

The Foothills Falcons tied their best finish at the boys volleyball provincials on Nov. 24, but left Lethbridge wanting more. The ninth ranked Falcons finished 10th at the 4A Senior Boys High School Provincials, held Nov.

The Okotoks Midget AA Oilers are slowly getting used to life without their most valuable player. Netminder Richard Palmer?s mid-season call up to the Midget AAA UFA Bisons has been the Strathmore club?s gain and the Okotoks outfit?s loss.

The Okotoks Bantam AAA Oilers played with an edge to win an intra-provincial tournament over a nearby rival last weekend.

An Okotoks water polo standout who got her start with the Prairie Dolphins has swam her way through unchartered waters to an Ivy League school.

The Okotoks Oilers failed to cash in on an opportunity to separate themselves from the South Division pack losing back-to-back games on the weekend.

After a year of planning, organizing, fundraising and recruiting the Okotoks Lady Outlawz officially have a home in the Western Women’s Canadian Football League.

The Strathcona-Tweedsmuir Spartans (STS) Senior girls volleyball team can be compared to the Calgary Stampeders and its Grey Cup run. They both had highly-successfully seasons but came up flat in the finale.

An Okotoks runner completed the four-kilometre portion of a foothills cross-country event with the weight of the ocean on his shoulders. By the time Jason Olynyk was done, he had salted away $900 for Okotoks KidSport.