Category Archives: Local Sports

Central Alberta Freestyle Ski Club hosts meet at Canyon
The Central Alberta Freestyle Ski Club hosted their club competition over the weekend, their first home meet in the last few years. The club hosted it at Canyon Ski Resort and invited seven other club...
Feb 26, 2020 (photo submitted)

Winter Sports Day at École Barrie Wilson
cole Barrie Wilson Elementary School kicked off their annual Winter Sports Day on Wednesday. The event is designed to get students out of the classroom for the day and try a bunch of events. Students ...
Feb 25, 2020 (rdnewsNOW/Dan Hermanutz)

Playoffs start tonight for Bantam AAA Rebels
The Bantam AAA Red Deer Rebels are onto the AMBHL playoffs after going 28-2-3 with 59 points and finishing as the top-ranked team in the league. In the first round, Red Deer faces the fourth seed in t...
Feb 25, 2020

Olds Broncos basketball squads fall to St. Mary's
The Olds College Broncos women's basketball team lost 75-66 to the St. Mary's University Lightning in the Local School Appreciation Night Saturday, Feb. 22 at the Ralph Klein Centre. The Player of the...
Feb 24, 2020

Rustlers remain one win away from NCHL final
The Red Deer Rustlers are one win away from the NCSHL Vanberg Cup finals as they lead the top-seeded Morinville Kings in their best-of-five series second round playoff series 2-1.The Rustlers and the ...
Feb 24, 2020

Wranglers win pair in extra time over Vipers to start playoff series
The Red Deer Vipers and Sylvan Lake Wranglers are in the midst of a heated first round series in the HJHL playoffs which Sylvan leads 2-0. Both games have required more than sixty minutes.Game one saw...
Feb 24, 2020

Optimist Chiefs swept from AMHL playoffs
The Red Deer Optimist Chiefs were swept in the first round of the AMHL playoffs by the Calgary Northstars over the weekend.The two teams met for game one of a five game series on February 18 at Servus...
Feb 24, 2020

Weekly Scoreboard: Feb. 24-Mar. 1, 2020
*All records shown are current prior to the week beginning**If you have a local sports score or story you'd like to see on our website, email news@rdnewsnow.com or josh@rdnewsnow.comDQ ATHLETE OF THE ...
Feb 24, 2020

HJHL Playoffs: Wranglers take game one against Vipers
While NHL teams were deploying emergency backups and scoring nine goals in a single game on Saturday, the Red Deer Vipers and Sylvan Lake Wranglers were starting their first playoff series together wi...
Feb 23, 2020

First Shift program teaching hockey to kids in Red Deer
The NHL and NHLPA's First Shift program, in conjunction with Hockey Alberta, is currently giving young kids their first taste of hockey in Red Deer.The program lasts six weeks and goes every Saturday ...
Feb 22, 2020 (Hockey Alberta)