Local Sports

Four Northeast Alberta Track and Field Club (NEAT) athletes came home with medals from the Calgary Spring Challenge and Combined Events Championship at Glenmore Athletic Park on the weekend.

Seven volleyball teams from the Lac La Biche region participated in ATB Financial’s volleyball tournament at J.A. Williams high school last weekend to raise money for the Stollery Children’s hospital in Edmonton.

A rejuvenated Bonnyville Voyageurs football squad came into spring season hungry for even more success this year, but will be up against tough competition, according to head coach Brian Walsh.

The Bonnyville Bandits junior football team's spring season kicked off this past week and players have already started to impress the coaches with their speed and skill.

Coach Ian MacGillivray hopes handball will catch on in the area after the Mallaig School Tier II boys came home with the Alberta Schools Athletic Association provincial championship.

The Centennial Arena in Lac La Biche was transformed from a hockey rink to a rodeo arena last weekend for the Lac La Biche Spring Classic Indoor Rodeo, with hundreds of fans packing the arena.

Badminton zones took place this past Monday in Cold Lake as a qualifier for provincials, which take place May 6-7 in Strathmore, Alberta.

It was the Sharks versus the Sharks this past week. And not surprisingly, the Sharks prevailed. The U18 Lakeland Sharks club volleyball team defeated the U16 Sharks four sets to one, in a friendly match at Notre Dame High School on April 27.

Piles of splintered plywood were left on the floor after last Wednesday night’s Break for Hope fundraiser for Hope Haven Women’s shelter that saw local taekwondo students kick, punch and break wooden boards for charity.

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