Local Sports

The one thing a Turner Valley family won’t be looking for this Monday is fun. Kristy Cheesman will be going out with her children and grandchildren for the third annual Turner Valley-Black Diamond Scavenger Hunt this Family Day, Feb. 20.

A provincial wrestling champion is hoping a rest is way better than a change.

The Foothills Falcons knocked off the defending Foothills Athletic Council champions for the second time this season last week.

By Bruce Campbell Sports Editor A former NHL linesman is used to having his decisions questioned once and a while, but now that same Okotoks resident is being panned by newspaper reporters from five different countries.

The Foothills Falcons caught a comet by the tail in a Senior boys basketball tournament in Calgary. The Falcons won one game and lost two en route to losing the consolation final at the Sir Winston Churchill Bulldogs tournament on Feb. 3-4.

The Holy Trinity Academy Knights got more than a bronze medal at a Senior girls high school basketball tournament last weekend. They learned what they need to do to compete with the top 3A teams in the province.

The Holy Trinity Academy Knights started slowly at one of the biggest Catholic high school tournaments in the province, but found consolation in beating a ranked 3A basketball team for the first time this season.

Some foothills women are throwing caution to the wind — and maybe the odd body slam — as they roll around a gym floor at a High River school.

With first place in the Heritage Junior Hockey League already sewn up, the Okotoks Bisons got a taste of playoff level hockey in their second last game of the regular season.

Two Okotoks Airborne Tumbling and Trampoline athletes have landed at nationals after their performance at the club’s meet on the weekend. Airborne head coach Matt Wheele said it was a terrific weekend top-to-bottom for the local club.