Local Sports

The Innisfail Indians will open the 2011 Parkland Baseball League (PBL) season tonight against the Olds Athletics with significant changes both on and off the field.

Sundre's U-16 team takes on Olds at the Bergen Field on Wednesday. Sundre got goals from James Dyer (2), Lucas Dyer, David Newton, Jitse vandenHadelkamp (2) and Jelmer vandenHadelkamp. Sundre won 7 - 2.

An NHLer and former Grizzly was in the area last week visiting with school kids and making an appearance at the Grizzlys banquet Friday.

The on-ice product for the Olds Grizzlys should be in good shape heading into the 2011-12 Alberta Junior Hockey League season, according to team president Jim Ross.

After losing an eye during a recreational hockey game 15 years ago, Dean Turnquist’s friends and neighbours organized a road hockey tournament to help raise funds and garner support for Turnquist’s recovery.

Innisfail Minor Hockey product, Kaleb Denham, was one of eight Central Alberta youth picked in the 2011 WHL Bantam Draft last week. Denham was drafted 126th overall by the Tri-City Americans out of Kennewick, WA.

Three teams of slo-pitch players hit the field last weekend to kick off the season and remember one of Innisfail’s most dedicated ball players.

Despite a good second half in which the Olds High School Spartans senior girls' rugby team outscored the Rimbey Junior-Senior High School Spartans 17-10, the Olds group could not overcome a 33-0 first-half deficit during rugby action Wednesday.

The Central Alberta Amazons will be able to call themselves provincial champions after taking first place in the Alberta Junior Female Hockey League (AJFHL).

After three years of competitive badminton, Olds High School student Sara Odersky is off to the provincial championships Friday and Saturday in Strathmore.