Sports

Congratulations the the Three Hills Royals Sr. Boys Basketball team and their first place finish at the Battle of the Badlands in Drumheller. The team had tight games throughout the weekend with a five point victory over Acme in their semi-final and a three point victory over Banff in the final. Well done Royals! Pictured is: (top row) Gauge Hamm, Dylan Fu, Jarod McLeay, Adam Viste, Sidney Platt, Austin Olson, Dyllan Gustafson, David Zampaga. (bottom row) Taylor Sirois, Deyem Lansink, Raffy Hui

The annual Three Hills Farmers Open Bonspiel was a resounding success last week as twenty-eight teams from around the county competed at the Three Hills Curling Club rink.

The winners in the highly competitive field were Torrington's Jeff Bauer rink (A Event), Mike Frolek's rink from Three Hills (B Event), the Derek Krywcun rink of Rumsey (C Event) and the Dan McArthur rink of Trochu (D Event).

More than 50 sponsors donated a great array of prizes for the top four teams in each event.

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The Three Hills Royals Jr. A Girls basketball team placed first in their home tournament on December 16. The team placed first in their pool and then defeated a strong Cremona team in the final. Well done, Royals! Pictured left to right is (top row) Rylan Lammle, Byrne Lammle (coach), Malia Van Doren, Annika Ferguson, Braelynn Rosgen, Denay Kinniburgh, Olivia Luijkx (coach). Bottom row: Kendal Stockwood, Angela Haller, Angela Lammle, Taylor Gustafson, Emma Giesbrecht.

Last Tuesday, the Thrashers travelled to Stettler to face-off against the Lightning. The home team struck twice in the opening period to get out to the early lead. Early in the second period, Connor Raddis’ goal put Three Hills on the board but only 29 seconds later, the Lightning replied to restore the two goal lead. The Thrashers got a power-play goal from Cale Severtson, his first goal of the season, and then less than a minute later Raddis scored his second of the night to make the sc