Dig yourself a hole and it can be awfully hard trying to get out — sometimes you just fall right back in.
The Holy Trinity Academy Knights dug themselves a deep hole against their crosstown rivals, the Foothills Falcons on in Foothills Athletic Council action on Wednesday evening. After a making a charge, the Knights wound up on the losing end of a 75-46 score of the senior boys basketball game at Holy Trinity Academy.
Foothills coach Amron Gwilliam said the Knights showed the Falcons they can never get complacent.
“We had a …

Walk into the Murray Arena on any given game night and you are just as likely as the goaltenders themselves to know who the Okotoks Bisons’ starting netminder is going to be.
Not that it matters who the Bisons’ coaching staff decides to put in net when they have two hot goaltenders.
“We are both equal and we are both playing really well, so it’s kind of an easy choice for (head coach Mike Hannigan) just throwing us in, one and two,” said Bison goaltender Bryce Scherschel.
Scherschel and his counterpart, Christian Chivilo, …

players the riot act.
After all, if Garry VanHereweghe was to ask his players what have you done for me lately, they could reply: “Quite a bit, actually coach.”
“If you look at the last 10 games, we are 8-2,” VanHereweghe said prior to their Monday night game with the Calgary Royals. “It’s not as if we have been playing badly and those two losses came to the first-place team by just one goal.”
The Oilers dropped a 3-2 decision to the Camrose Kodiaks in Camrose Thursday. While the Oilers have one game …

An Okotoks wrestler is doing things on the mat that is taking even his coach by surprise.
However, one thing that didn’t surprise coach Doug Watkins was Jordan Wallace coming home with a medal from one of the biggest high school meets of the year Saturday in Edmonton.
Wallace won the silver medal at 46kg at the Golden Bear High School meet.
“I don’t give Jordan enough credit,” Watkins said. “He does things on the wrestling mat that I don’t see in practice. He has a lot of skills.”
Wallace, a Grade 10 student …

An Okotoks swim coach was behind the camera directing a commercial last week, but he’s not about to quit his day job.
Todd Melton, coach of the Foothills Stingrays Swim Club, was filming a small documentary about himself on Jan. 27 at the pool in Okotoks. He has to submit the film after being named one of the six finalists in the Campbell’s Chunky Soup Most Valuable Coach Contest.

“Basically, I have to make this three-minute commercial,” a sopping wet, smiling Melton said on Jan. 27 during a Stingray practice. …

Curling and hockey are two sports that would be completely foreign to Haitians, however, Okotoks participants in both those sports are sending their thoughts — and money — to earthquake victims in Haiti.

An Okotoks Peewee team isn’t taking a half-hearted approach to helping Haiti. The Okotoks Peewee 5B Oilers contributed the proceeds from the 50-50 ticket sales from their Jan. 23 game against Claresholm to help Haiti by making a donation through the Red Cross.
It wasn’t just mom and dad buying the tickets between periods either.
“We told the players …

A former major leaguer who lived the dream of winning two World Series now has a new dream.
John Shelby’s dream is to coach a ballplayer from the Okotoks Dawgs’ organization in the major leagues.

“Watching and listening how baseball has taken off here, I can’t wait until I hopefully coach one of the kids from Okotoks,” Shelby told a sold-out audience at the third annual Okotoks Dawgs banquet on Saturday.
“That is really my dream right now because I truly feel I am part of the O Dawgs.”
Shelby played 11 years …

The Okotoks Dawgs’ 2009 MVP is saying ‘oui’ to professional baseball.
Outfielder Anthony Cros was named the Dawgs’ Most Valuable Player at the team’s annual banquet and awards ceremony Saturday at the Foothills Centennial Centre and he is now hoping to catapult the success he had during his two years with the Dawgs into a pro career starting this summer in Quebec.
“Right now I am getting to play pro baseball, hopefully with the Quebec City Capitales,” said Cros, who grew up in France. “They are looking for French-speaking players.”
The Capitales are …

It might not be as pretty as a three-point shot or a slam dunk, but a big block and taking a charge is just as important as the flashy plays when it comes to winning a basketball game.
The Holy Trinity Academy Knights took home the silver medal at the Olds Spartans Senior boys basketball tournament Jan. 29-30 losing to the Brooks Buffaloes 57-51 in the final. The Buffaloes are ranked in the top 15 among 3A schools in Alberta.
“Our guys weren’t happy that we lost in the final but I …

The foothills is about to invade Cold Lake.
No, the flyboys at the air force base don’t have to hop into their planes. This invasion consists of a number of athletes who are on the Zone 2 team competing in the Alberta Winter Games this weekend in the Lakeland area in northeast Alberta.

The athletes range from badminton players to wrestlers. In fact the entire Zone 2 badminton team consists of players from the Edison Badminton Club in Okotoks.
The first match
A Cayley area wrestler qualified for the Alberta Winter Games this …