Sports

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

On July 26, 2018, the Elnora Eagles claimed the 2018 Canada Region Senior Softball Championship after four days of competition in Elnora between the Eagles, the Assiniboia Aces and Ponoka LL. The Eagles went 4-0 in the tournament earning a trip to Lower Sussex, Delaware July 30 – August 5, 2018 to represent Canada in the World Series.

The Eagles defeated the Assiniboia Aces, 4-3, in the Championship Game.

The Eagles played their first game at the 2018 Senior League Softball World Series,

On Monday, July 23, the Elnora Eagles welcomed the Assiniboia Aces and Ponoka LL to the 2018 Canada Region Senior Softball Championship. Opening ceremonies were held at 9:30 AM with the first game starting at 11:00 AM, between the Elnora Eagles and the Assiniboia Aces. The Eagles claimed a 6-3 victory. The next three games scored as such: Elnora Eagles vs Ponoka 11-1 for Elnora, Assiniboia vs Ponoka 18-16 for Assiniboia, and Ponoka vs Assiniboia 8-7 for Assiniboia. The Elnora Eagles next game i