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“They didn’t come ready to play,” was how Portage College Voyageurs hockey team head coach Terry Ewasiuk summed up Friday night’s game in Lac La Biche against the NAIT Ooks.

The season is over and the equipment has been turned in for the winter. The Bonnyville Bandits' off-season has begun and with that comes reflection of a season past.

They were in line to win back-to-back games at home, but with one minute remaining in the game Saturday night, the Bonnyville Pontiacs “stood around” as their opponents claimed the victory, according to head coach and GM Chad Mercier.

The Canadiens hosted third placed Wainwright Bisons last Saturday evening at the Clancy Richard arena, and succumbed to defeat by a score of 11 – 1.

The Edmonton Eskimos’ late season surge proved to be too little too late two weekends ago, and this year’s Grey Cup host team will have to watch from the sidelines during the 2010 Grey Cup two weekends from now.

The Edmonton Eskimos’ late season surge proved to be too little too late two weekends ago, and this year’s Grey Cup host team will have to watch from the sidelines during the 2010 Grey Cup two weekends from now.

For the first time in the team’s history, the St. Paul Bengals are going to the provincial minor football finals, after beating its southern Alberta opponent, the Leduc Ti-Cats, soundly last Saturday afternoon at St. Paul Regional Field.

The Saddle Lake Warriors was edged out of a win in its second meeting against the top placed Cold Lake Ice at Saddle Lake’s Manitou Kihew arena on Sunday evening, by a score of 6-7.

Two wins against the Briercrest Clippers in Caronport, Saskat­chew­an would have meant a third place standing in the eight-team Alberta Colleges Athletic Con­ference standings for the Portage Voyageurs hockey team — but they only got the job half don

Three swimmers from the Lac La Biche Whitecaps Swim Club attended the 22nd Annual Poppy Invitation last weekend in Edmonton, their first meet of the season, and showed teams from across the province just how much competition a small community can bri