Local Sports

Just over a week after the deaths of three horses during the Calgary Stampede reignited calls to ban the sport, two horses died as a result of the races in Bonnyville.

Two local baseball teams took to the road this weekend and brought home provincial gold after some hard-fought final games. The St.

Several athletes from St. Paul and area will be heading to Lethbridge this week and pushing themselves to the limit to compete well at the Alberta Summer Games.

The scene was set for a great final race at the Eurasia Cup Invitational on Saturday night, part of the Edmonton Indy race weekend.

Bonnyville hosts their 5th annual World Professional Chuckwagon Races and our staff was there, experiencing all the action.

Peter Seifert has been ice racing in Lac La Biche for the past several years, and has been dirt-track racing for even longer than that, but on July 21 he will take to the track in Edmonton in his first ever Indy cup race.

The St. Paul Storm represented the community well as the team hosted the U14 Peewee Girls ‘C’ and ‘D’ softball provincials in St. Paul from July 13 to 15 and in the end, finished in fourth place.

A handful of times throughout the week, sometimes at different times of the day, groups made up of mostly women gather at Peak Physique, hop on some stationary bikes, and peddle their hearts out to some upbeat music.

The Bonnyville Blaze U14 Girls soccer team is looking to learn lessons after taking silver in this past weekend's provincials in Beaumont, hoping to capture gold next year, coming back stronger and wiser.

It might be summer, but North East Alberta Track Club (NEAT) athletes are still hard at work training for upcoming competitions, with two of its members heading to westerns and nationals as part of Team Alberta.