Local Sports

If the weather doesn’t improve drastically in the next month, most people will be upset. Not I, as the 2010 FIFA World Cup begins June 11 and will keep me indoors for at least four-and-a-half extra hours per day.

A pair of losses in the last week has left the Junior B Rockyview Silvertips with a 1W-6L record in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League. But head coach Gord Henry believes the last two games will help move the team back into the win column.

The Cochrane A Cobras would have preferred gold, but the team is more than happy with ending its season on a winning note and claiming bronze.

Arm wrestling will take centre stage in Airdrie this weekend, as the provincial championships and high school challenge will run at Genesis Place, June 5. Weigh-ins will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Good defence and great goaltending often win championships.

Arm wrestling will take centre stage in Airdrie this weekend, as the provincial championships and high school challenge will run at Genesis Place, June 5. Weigh-ins will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

A pair of losses in the last week has left the Junior B Rockyview Silvertips with a 1W-6L record in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League. But head coach Gord Henry believes the last two games will help move the team back into the win column.

A spring snowstorm greeted the best drivers in Canada in the second round of the Canadian Rally Championship (CRC). The Rocky Mountain Rally was held in the hills near Bragg Creek and Porcupine Hills south of Nanton, May 28 and 29.

The senior men’s Beiseker Canadians baseball team is hoping to return to championship form this season.

It was a tournament Chestermere’s Keystone Raiders would like to forget. The Raiders finished seventh at the Sutter Cup Championship, March 12-14.