Local Sports

A dominant performance in a penalty filled affair ensured Okotoks’ Midget AA hockey team wasn’t burned by the Taber Golden Suns.

The head coach of the Foothills Falcons football team doesn’t really know a whole lot about the team he will be facing in about 24 hours.

The Holy Trinity Academy Knights will have a week off to get prepare for their rematch against the Rundle College Cobras. The Knights ended their regular season with a convincing 30-3 win over the Highwood Mustangs Oct. 4 at Knights Field in Okotoks.

Some grease helped the Okotoks Junior A Oilers end the Thanksgiving weekend on a positive note.

It takes more than being a two-time league champion to win hockey games — one also has to play like a two-time league champion.

A Holy Trinity Academy Knight has joined an exclusive club. Grade 12 student Sophia Clubbe became the first Knight to win a South Central Zone cross-country championship in all three of her high school years.

With apologies to local politicians there’s been an existing pipeline extending south from Calgary to Okotoks for a few years now.

Don’t expect an Okotoks ultra-marathoner to get a job writing for European travel guides in the near future.

It will be strange for the first head coach of the Okotoks Oilers to root against the Junior A team at the Pason Centennial Centre this weekend.

A former captain of the Okotoks Junior B Bisons is back in town. Cale Granson, who played four years with the Junior B team, has returned to the club as a trainer after graduating from Palmer College of Chiropractic in Iowa last February.