Local Sports

One of the province’s largest weekend draws in female hockey is only getting better.

The Okotoks Oilers addressed a sudden shortage of healthy defencemen and surplus of goalies with a pair of transactions this week.

The Foothills Falcons saw their provincial dreams dashed by the aerial attack of the Springbank Phoenix.

The Foothills Eagles put forth a valiant comeback effort before the clock struck midnight in the Calgary Peewee Football Association Tier I city finals. The Calgary Cowboys held on for the 30-22 victory in a thrilling championship game, Nov.

The hosts were biding for a three-peat, but their neighbours to the west had other ideas altogether.

No one has to teach an Okotoks Oilers rookie defenceman about what it takes to win. Stefan Danielson, as a 2012 Telus Cup Midget national champion, pretty much has that lesson down pat already.

An Okotoks curler is peaking at the right time. Through two months of competition the Scott Smith rink, featuring Okotokian Taylor Ardiel at second, sits at the apex of the Alberta Junior Curling Tour standings with 43 points to its name.

Three Okotoks area athletes headed south to compete in the world triathlon championship late last month — way south.

A Holy Trinity Academy graduate had to do a complete 180 degrees in his fourth-year at the University of Saskatchewan. Former HTA linebacker Charlie Power has made the switch from defence to offence on the U of S Huskies football team this season.

It looks like the Okotoks Bisons have found the antidote to the first-place bite of the Coaldale Copperheads. For the second time in two weeks the Bisons got the better of the Copperheads by earning a convincing 5-2 win in a heated affair Nov.