Sports

The Three Hills Thrashers Junior B hockey club hosted their tryouts last week at the Three Hills Centennial Place Arena.

A total of 31 young men, eager to play for the Junior B squad worked under the direction of head coach Wayne Sharp and his staff. Included among the hopefuls were 10 returning veterans from last year’s team, as well as a good group of local prospects. Three goalies were in camp, including returning netminder Alex Jones. Coach Sharp noted some of the vets appeared to be

Former Three Hills 49ers Baseball teammates Norm Campion and Blair Hanna brought home the Canadian National Oldtimer’s Baseball Championship played in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, August 3-6, 2018.

Norm and Blair were members of the Three Hills 49ers Baseball Team when they won the Rockyview Baseball League Championships in 1985 and 1986 and they’re still going strong.

Now members of the Red Deer Legends (57-plus year category), they opened the tournament with a close game w

Two local thirteen year olds, Jordan Bauer, of Torrington, and Nash Dettmer, of Trochu, have just wrapped up a very successful season with the Olds Spitfires Peewee AA baseball team.

The boys were selected to the team following evaluations in the spring, and competed in the Baseball Alberta league for the entire season.

The Spitfires hosted Peewee AA Tier 1 Provincials, earlier in the month, and ended up as Provincial champs with a perfect 5 win, 0 loss record through the championship tournamen

The first weekend of July saw two of our teams attending Provincial championships in different parts of the Province. Our U13 boys were in Carstairs and our U19 girls were in St. Paul. Both team did extremely well and played their best.

Game 1 - Three Hills U13 boys started their provincial experience playing a very intense game between two very evenly matched teams. Ardrossan scored first and was dominant in the first half. Three Hills had the endurance however and with long runs by the forwar