A smaller camp has allowed the Okotoks Junior A Oilers’ coaching staff to have a stronger focus on the players trying to make the team’s 2010-2011 roster.
“We started with less than half the number of players at camp than we did last year,” said Okotoks Oilers coach Garry VanHereweghe. “I think with the smaller numbers the players can see the light at the end of the tunnel rather than when you have a 100 guys.”
The Oilers started camp on Aug. 24 and have played a pair of exhibition games with …

The offensive coordinator for the Holy Trinity Knights is practically walking on air in anticipation of the upcoming high school football season.

He has strong-armed quarterback Mark Oness returning for his senior year and an octopus-like corps of receivers — eight players with hands that can stretch out and snare a football.
“We are going to use a spread offence and we will throw the ball,” said Knights offensive coordinator Keith Schneider, who compared his offense to the pass-happy TCU Horned Frogs of the NCAA.
“We have a lot of good athletes …

The Foothills Eagles got off to a slow start in their opening game of the Calgary Bantam Football Association season.

Foothills was beaten 32-6 by the Wildcats Saturday in Calgary.
“We had a rough first game,” said Eagles coach Kelly Stickel. “The Wildcats were able to get three touchdowns early in the game to the same receiver.
“We had some early breakdowns in our secondary.”
The Eagles made some adjustments and were able to hold their own after the trio of Wildcats’ touchdowns.
Foothills’ lone touchdown came on a 30-yard catch-and-run play when quarterback Carson …

An Okotoks woman found the perfect recipe to battle her diabetes.
Just take one half decent pair of sneakers, a group of friends, one running nut for a husband and mix three or four times a week. Kathleen Ellum, 70, will be running the five-kilometre course in her fifth consecutive Sheep River Road Race this Labour Day at Foothills Composite High School.
“I was diagnosed a diabetic about six years ago and I was just 0.2 over the limit, but once you are classified as a diabetic you are a diabetic,” Ellum …

The King will have to slip this weekend in order for a High River area chuckwagon driver to retain his crown.

Jason Glass, the two-time defending World Professional Chuckwagon Association (WPCA) champion, sits in third place in the world standings with 1,101 points trailing Kelly “The King” Sutherland who sits in first at 1,235.5 points and Buddy Bensmiller is second at 1,148.5.
There are only four nights of racing left as the wagons roll into Edmonton for the Dodge Pro Tour finals Sept. 1-5 for Glass to chase down Sutherland. (The final …