Sports

The wins kept piling up for members of the Rimbey Boxing Club following another successful tournament held in Lethbridge recently as three of four fighters who duked it out in official bouts came away with victories

If the Rimbey Rock were looking to add some much-needed offense to their game, they found it last week at the expense of the lowly Ponoka Stampeders who they crushed by a score of 15-5

It was a basketball fan’s dream-come-true this past weekend as the Spartans Girls Team hosted the 34th annual Rimbey Sweetheart Basketball Tournament. Pictured above is action from Friday afternoon featuring the hosts squaring off against the Central High Lams of Sedgewick.

There’s an old adage that says, “the more things change, the more they stay the same,” and for the two major hockey teams in this coverage area, that adage pretty well sums up their entire seasons to this point because while the Bentley Generals have picked up exactly where they left off last season as reigning champions of the Chinook Hockey League and finalists in the national championship, the Rimbey Rock of the Heritage Junior Hockey League find themselves pretty well in the same situation t

Some of the area’s best rock stars hit the pebbled ice of the Rimbey Curling Club in mid November for the annual Men’s Open Curling Bonspiel with ten teams competing for a prize pool of approximately $1,500.

The karate students of Central Alberta Martial Arts and Wellness Centre probably have some pretty sore arms, but what would one expect after completing 5.000 pushups?

As the wins keep racking up for most of his fighters, Coach Mike Smith of the Rimbey Boxing Club is finding himself with more and more of a dilemma.

Eighteen teams competed in the 2008 Bentley Farmer’s Bonspiel that ran Nov. 25 through 29. The undefeated champs were Lionel Baron, Dwayne Baron, Doug Grinder, and Bill Baron from Ponoka who defeated the Gord Graves foursome from Lacombe in the first event final.

Over the past decade or two, the emergence of women in sports generally considered to be part of the male domain has been growing by leaps and bounds.