Local Sports

The Rocky View Sports Association (RVSA) will determine its divisional champions in basketball this weekend. George McDougall is the No.

The Optimist Club of Airdrie will soon be supporting young cancer patients in the city. The club is participating in the Child Cancer Campaign during the month of June, with proceeds supporting the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation.

With February in the rearview mirror, it’s finally time for one of the top sporting months on the calendar. Its premier event doesn’t begin until 10 a.m.

Mellisa Hollingsworth finished her season the way she wanted to. With a silver medal at last week’s skeleton world championships in Lake Placid, N.Y.

After dropping game one in its second round Alberta Major Bantam Hockey League (AMBHL) playoff series, the Xtreme faced back-to-back elimination games against Medicine Hat last weekend. Airdrie won them both, 6-3 at the Ron Ebbesen Arena on Feb.

The Airdrie Knights lacrosse team will be known again as, well, the Airdrie Knights. The Senior B team, which is a part of the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League (RMLL), last called Airdrie’s Plainsmen Arena home during the 2008 season.

Jennifer Boyd received some unannounced and unexpected news during a recent trip to the bowling alley. The local 24-year-old has been named the Special Olympics Airdrie athlete of the month for March.

Four Cochrane sports associations have banded together for a project that will see two outdoor and one indoor turf field built in the community in the next eight years.

The Airdrie Xtreme advanced to the second round of the Alberta Major Bantam Hockey League (AMBHL) playoffs by defeating the Lethbridge Golden Hawks in two straight games last week.

Airdrie’s Darrell Belyk won two weight classes at an arm wrestling competition in Swift Current, Sask., last weekend. Twenty-three competitors from arm wrestling clubs Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba were at the event.