Local Sports

It was baptism by fire for a foothills women’s rugby team on the weekend.

An Okotoks minor soccer team is heading to the top two tournaments in the province with something its been lacking for months — a full roster.

Alberta Junior A Lacrosse League teams must feel like they're seeing double when they face the Okotoks Raiders.

One of Alberta’s best Junior rugby teams is about to get a taste of how the sport is practiced overseas.

The Okotoks Dawgs are well prepared as they head into their mid-term exams in the Western Major Baseball League season.

The Okotoks Curling Club’s request to host the 2014 men’s curling championship has been denied.

For the third consecutive year the plaque on the Holy Trinity Academy Senior Boys Athlete of the Year award will read “Reid”.

The head coach of the Okotoks Dawgs might want to consider a career with the Mounties when he hangs up his spikes. With the addition of shortstop Trace Tam-Sing in mid-June, coach Brandon Newell proved just like the RCMP, he always gets his man.

An Okotoks chuckwagon driver’s chances of winning the Calgary Stampede’s Rangeland Derby may have toppled when he knocked over a pair of barrels on Sunday night. Okotoks’ Mark Sutherland was hoping to move up the standings when he had the No.

They were definitely buying peanuts at the old ball game at Seaman Stadium last week. Darcy “the Hawker” Fairbourn set an unofficial record when he sold 1,480 bags of peanuts during the Dawgs’ 4-3 victory over the Swift Current Indians on June 30.