Sports

Linden held its 7th Annual Fishing Derby on Saturday, August 24 and, unlike last year, contestants were actually catching fish. Last year’s event, also sponsored by the Linden and District Agricultural Society, had only one fish caught. Peter Schmaltz was able to catch a 12” fish, but it was the only fish caught throughout that day.

This year, there were 24 total entries, up three from last year, and there were lots of fish caught. Prizes are awarded for the largest fish caught in t

Acme Redsox 11U Baseball Provincial Team brought the gold medal home. The final provincial weekend was hosted in Thorsby, Alberta where the team battled through tornado warnings, delayed games, an extra tie-breaker game, and played their little hearts out to secure the win. Their provincial run included three fun filled weekends camping together and connecting as a team in Red Deer, Okotoks and Thorsby.

In early July, the Elnora Eagles were fortunate to end the regular season with winning the Softball Alberta U16 B Provincial Championship in Strathmore. This made the Elnora Eagles back-to-back provincial gold medalists for 2018 and 2019. Being a younger team in their U16 age category, this was an exciting achievement!

Beginning July 22, both the U16 and U19 Eagles teams hosted Little League Nationals in Elnora.

After looking up to the older girls traveling to Delaware for the World Series last

Ashley and Darla Gagyi travelled to Seattle, Washington, USA July 4 for the first leg of Ashley’s journey to Rome, Italy to play basketball. While in Seattle, Ashley and Darla toured about sightseeing before Darla returned home July 6.

Ashley joined an NBC Basketball Camp in Olds the summer of 2018. Following, she received an invitation to play for the NBC Basketball Travel Team. This team takes high school boys and girls form Canada and the US to travel to other countries to play basketb