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 …

An old rivalry is about to be rekindled when the Okotoks Bisons face the High River Flyers in the opening round of the Heritage Junior B Hockey League playoffs next week.
Those who participated when the Flyers and then Okotoks Oilers met in the Ranchland Senior Men’s Hockey League in the 1970s and 80s doubt if the upcoming rivalry will be as rugged as the old one.

“It wasn’t a lot of fun when you had to play Okotoks in Okotoks,” said former Flyer Ron McIntosh. “There would be people yelling …

The Canadian women’s hockey team has received the best wishes from an Okotoks girls’ team in their preparation for the Winter Olympics which start this weekend.
In return the Okotoks players got some help from the favourites to win gold in Vancouver.
The Okotoks Atom A Oilers practised with the Canadian Women’s Olympic team in January at Father David Bauer Arena in Calgary.
“I was really excited to meet the women’s national team — it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” said Oiler Kassy Betinol.
It was an experience that went beyond getting the autograph of …

Some so-called Senior curlers have qualified for an Alberta curling championship thanks to some youthful vim-and-vigour.
Debbie Miller’s Okotoks rink won the Southern Alberta Senior Women’s playdowns on Jan. 30 when they defeated Terry Loblaw 9-7 in the final at Medicine Hat.

Miller’s rink will now go on to the Alberta Senior Women’s championships in Edmonton on Feb. 17-21.
It was the 56-year-old’s fourth attempt to get past the Southern Alberta playdowns.
“It hasn’t been with the same team, but I have been trying for a while,” Miller said.
Three rinks from the South …