Local Sports

The Foothills Lions are expanding the Friday Night Light’s concept into the sport of rugby.

The Oilfields Drillers are showing their counterparts in Okotoks they are taking quite a liking to 15-girls’ rugby. The Drillers shutout the host Holy Trinity Academy (HTA) Knights 26-0 in Big Sky Rugby Union high school girls play May 17 in Okotoks.

A Grade 12 striker traded in his scoring boots to fill in as a last minute third-choice goalkeeper in a winning cause for an Okotoks high school boys soccer team.

The Okotoks Junior A Raiders top goal scorer from a year ago showed no signs of a sophomore slump in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League season opener.

A Foothills Lions back made good on an off-season commitment to his teammates and now his dedication is beginning to bear fruit on the rugby pitch.

A group of Holy Trinity Academy students did some extra work after completing an Easter trip to Costa Rica to help out youths in an orphanage. They put in about 24 kilometres of roadwork.

A Foothills Falcon runner admits he’s brain-dead when he has completed a marathon, however, this marathon had nothing to do with running as he was completing a drawing marathon for his award-winning charcoal sketching Real Love.

One of the Okotoks Dawgs’ top pitchers didn’t spend the winter hibernating, even though he was living in a much a colder climate than his native Kentucky.

Okotoks has talent and the Dawgs would like to borrow some to sing Canada’s national anthem before ballgames. “We are looking for singers to sing ‘O Canada’,” said Okotoks Dawgs operations assistant Ethan Green.

Two Holy Trinity Academy Knights will suit up for Team Alberta’s U-18 team at the Canada Cup of Football in London this summer. Knights running back Ryder Stone and defensive back Jordan Rae made the team after the final tryouts on Saturday.