Local Sports

An Okotoks-area figure skater had just enough time to give his mom and dad a hug over the Christmas holidays before heading back west to prepare for the national championships.

For some local hockey players it was a roller-coaster tournament at the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge in Winnipeg.

It was a marked improvement but turnovers continued to dog the Foothills Falcons and it proved costly in the final of their home tournament on Saturday.

After closing out 2010 on a high note, the Okotoks Bisons continued their winning ways in the first game of 2011.

The Holy Trinity Academy Knights got off to a slow start in the bronze medal game at a girls’ basketball tournament and were buffaloed off the podium.

An Okotoks wrestler is the King of the Mat. Reid Watkins had a perfect 6-0 record at 74kg for Team Alberta en route to winning the Stu Hart King of the Mat tournament in Milton, ON, on Jan. 8.

The guest speaker at the fourth annual Okotoks Dawgs Awards Banquet has words of inspiration by a Nobel Peace prize winner posted on his website, but they are from an unexpected source.

For Brad Banister, the Calgary Roughnecks have been a labour of love, but all good things must come to an end. Banister, a resident of Okotoks, announced his plans to sell the National Lacrosse League (NLL) franchise on Jan. 5.

Heartbreaking losses are an equal opportunity thing. There is no bias, if you lose a big game in a big tournament it still hurts regardless of gender.

The Holy Trinity Academy Knights Senior boys basketball team has been perfect in league play thus far and they are hoping to carry that momentum into their home tournament.