The Okotoks Oilers can clinch their first regular season title by winning two of three games this week.
The Oilers moved into first place in the Alberta Junior Hockey League’s South Division by beating the Calgary Royals 5-2 Monday at the Centennial Arena.
The victory gave the Oilers 74 points. The second-place Camrose Kodiaks also have 74 points, but Okotoks has more wins.
The Oilers have three regular season games left while the Kodiaks have two remaining.
If Okotoks can clinch first-place it will give them a bye in the opening round of the …

A flock of Foothills Falcons has dropped in on the Okotoks Wrestling Club and they are making a habit of winning medals.
Okotoks wrestlers won four medals at the Highwood Mustang high school wrestling tournament on Friday and two of them came from a couple of grapplers from Foothills Composite who joined the club after exams in late January.

Dallas Toso, a Grade 10 student at the Comp, won the silver medal at 68kg. His lone loss came in the final against Matt Ferguson from Bowness High School, a high school …

An Okotoks Oiler rookie has proved his mettle by digging in the corners and getting his nose dirty in the Alberta Junior Hockey League. However, the six-foot-one, 200-pound Rhett Holland cowers when he gets a tongue-lashing from a five-foot-two, 105-pounder who wears a dress now and then.
Holland’s helper is Tara Epp, the learning strategies coordinator at Holy Trinity Academy (HTA) in Okotoks.
“We skipped mass one time and then Ms. Epp set us straight,” Holland said. “Garry (Oilers coach Garry VanHereweghe) heard about it and we got sat for the first …

A Highwood Mustang once again ripped the heart out of the Holy Trinity Academy Knights in a high school basketball game leaving the Knights head coach thinking his squad needs a transplant.

The Knights were beaten 58-56 by the Highwood Mustangs Feb. 10 at Holy Trinity Academy (HTA) in Okotoks when the Mustangs’ Andrew Olmsted made a one-handed, from the hip, one-in-a-million shot with 18 seconds left in the game.
Olmsted’s shot swished through the mesh just as the 24-second clock sounded.
It was a case of déjà vu as Olmsted had …

A pair of Okotoks area fencers received something more important than the medals they brought home from the Alberta Winter Games.
Chantal Beaulne won the gold medal in women’s epee at the Games in Bonnyville/Cold Lake, but she also found some untapped confidence. Her teammate Sean Badun took home the silver in men’s epee and a renewed passion for the sport.
Beaulne won the gold medal in epee when she beat Jodi Antonio of Edson. Beaulne finished first in the round robin by winning six of her seven matches.
A point is awarded …

Some of the best Canada and Alberta has to offer when it comes to badminton will be in Okotoks on Friday.
Olympic and Commonwealth Games athletes like Charmaine Reid are going to be at the Yonex Alberta Series tournament at the Edison Badminton Centre this weekend. Reid and close to 200 other entrants will be fighting for $3,500 in prize money and a chance to qualify for the $10,0000 Super Six Finals May 28 in Calgary.
“It is attracting some of Canada’s best players,” said Jeff Bell, executive director of Badminton Alberta, …

The Okotoks Junior B Bisons should carve it into stone tablets. Tattoo it on their arms. Call Webster and get it into the dictionary.
“If thou wants to beat the High River Flyers thou shalt stay out of yonder penalty box.”
The Bisons and the Flyers are meeting in the opening round of the Heritage Junior B Hockey League playoffs which began with Game 1 of the best of five game series on Feb. 16 in Okotoks.
The Flyers led the Heritage Junior Hockey League in penalty minutes with 1,713 — a whopping …

She’s conquered the slickest, fastest bobsled track in the world and now she gets to play on it all day without the weight of an entire nation on her shoulders.
As a brakeman testing the Olympic bobsled run in Whistler, B.C., most of Stacey Scott’s work comes at the start.
“Yes, I’m in the back on the fastest track in the world but there is not much I do there except for hold on,” said Scott, who graduated from Foothills Composite High School.
Scott labeled the track in Whistler “crazy fast” and how …

The Okotoks Fish and Game Association is providing the perfect Valentines’s Day getaway with refreshments and fresh air.
The association will hold its annual Family Ice Fishing Day on Feb. 14 at Chain Lakes. Members will help drill holes in the ice and provide assistance to beginning anglers. It is not a fishing derby or any kind of competition, but rather an opportunity to get out and enjoy some free entertainment and hot chocolate.
From Feb. 13 to 15, Albertans and visitors can fish without a licence in any public water body …

He’s not the biggest guy, but a first-year Okotoks Oiler has scored a pair of goals to knock off the number one team  in the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) twice.
Jonathan Turk has accumulated nine goals and 22 assists so far in his rookie season in the AJHL, none were bigger than a pair of overtime winners earlier in the year against the Spruce Grove Saints who have the best record in the league.

Turk scored the winner in the Oilers’ 3-2 victory over the Saints in November and then …