Local Sports

Several athletes from the North East Alberta Track (NEAT) Club, which is based in St. Paul, will head to Calgary this weekend to compete in the combined events provincial championships at Foothills Athletic Park.

The Edmonton Oilers with support from Cenovus Energy hosted a special hockey clinic for 100 lucky kids from May 4-6 at the Bold Center.

You may have noticed the lack of ice and new configuration of lines painted on the floor of the R. J. Lalonde Arena. The changes mark the start of only the second season of minor lacrosse in Bonnyville.

The Silhouette Dance School in St. Paul recently competed in the Shy-Ann Dance Productions Sundance Stars Dance Festival in Fort Saskatchewan where it won 15 medals and awards.

St. Paul Regional High School is sending 17 athletes to zones in Fort McMurray after it won the SPAA badminton championship banner last week. The Saints hosted the tournament on Wednesday afternoon and took first place in nine categories.

Despite the cold and wet conditions, riders from all across northeastern Alberta turned out to the annual quad rally in Ashmont this past weekend. Registration for the ride commenced early Saturday morning at the Ashmont Agriplex.

Th Edmonton rinks were packed with teams from all over Alberta as the annual Native Provincial hockey tournament had kids from Peewee through Midget playing for the opportunity to take home gold.

More than 400 Golden Age athletes from Ardmore to Wainwright and from Fort McMurray to Mundare will be in Lac La Biche for the Lakeland Senior Games from Aug. 14-16.

Although Travis Ulliac’s season with the Sherwood Park Knights hockey team is over, the local goaltender will always be able to remember being part of a truly amazing winning streak.

It took double overtime twice but the Cold Lake Ice took out their brooms and swept away the Killam Wheat Kings four games to none in the North Eastern Alberta Junior B Hockey League final to win the team's second straight championship title Saturday