Sports

Saturday March 8 the Bluffton boy’s junior high basketball team to defend the title they brought home last year, the first since 1983.

The children and youth of the Central Alberta Goju Ryu Karatedo, a local non-profit karate school, have taken a serious interest in helping the children of Nepal fight cataracts.

The seesaw battle of the Chinook Hockey League’s titans continued this past weekend as the Bentley Generals and Stony Plain Eagles met for the first two games of the best-of-seven league championship finals. And true to form, both teams recorded a win and a loss.

The Bentley Generals will be taking their high-flying. high-octane show on the road to the big city in their quest for a Chinook Hockey League championship.

It was the end of the line for the Rimbey Rock last Saturday night in Red Deer as the Rock were swept from the playoffs in the opening round of the Heritage Junior Hockey League.

Riding some solid defensive play and outstanding goaltending, the Bentley Generals completed a four-game sweep of the Fort Saskatchewan McEwan Chiefs and have advanced to the league’s final where they will face the only team that has given them any real opposition throughout the regular season: the Stony Plain Eagles.

They may be heading to the deep end of the pool, but the Rimbey Rock still have their heads above water following a big 4-3 overtime victory over the Ponoka Stampeders last Wednesday night that clinched second place for the local squad in the Heritage Junior Hockey League’s Prairie Division.

A female boxer who trains with the Rimbey Boxing Club has taken another big step in reaching the top of her sport.

They’ve taken a few nasty licks over the past three games, but the players and coaches of the Rimbey Rock are keeping their heads high and are remaining positive as they finish out the regular season and head into the playoffs.