Local Sports

The Second Gear Motorcycle Club will hit Chestermere Lake Jan. 16 for the first round of its 2011 ice racing championship.

Crossfield’s Patrick Murphy may soon have to expand his trophy case. The 13-year-old won the Boys’ 13-14 age group at the 2010 San Diego Junior Amateur Golf Tournament by two strokes on Dec.

Jared Lange wasn’t among the throngs of people at the mall in the weeks before Christmas. He was busy planning a trip to Jamaica and it wasn’t a Christmas vacation.

Call it an omen. When Airdrie Thunder forward Andrew Bergmann hit the post square on at the 5:27 mark of Jan. 7’s game against the Cochrane Generals, both teams inherently knew something out of the ordinary was about to take place.

Crossfield’s Patrick Murphy may soon have to expand his trophy case. The 13-year-old won the Boys’ 13-14 age group at the 2010 San Diego Junior Amateur Golf Tournament by two strokes on Dec.

Jared Lange wasn’t among the throngs of people at the mall in the weeks before Christmas. He was busy planning a trip to Jamaica and it wasn’t a Christmas vacation.

The Airdrie Thunder opened 2011 the way it ended 2010 – with a win and renewed optimism. The Thunder beat the High River Flyers 6-3 in the first home game of the calendar year, at the Ron Ebbesen Arena on Jan.

The Airdrie Xtreme scored five third-period goals to open the second half of its season with another win. With the 7-4 victory over the Golden Hawks in Lethbridge, Jan.

The hunter has become the hunted. After sitting behind the Lethbridge Golden Hawks for the first three months of the Alberta Major Bantam Hockey League season, the Airdrie Xtreme Bantam finally passed its division rival to sit first in the Ram South.

Martin Parnell has done it. After 365 days, the Cochrane resident crossed the finish line at his 250th race, Dec. 31, at the Spray Lakes Sawmills Family Sport Centre in Cochrane.