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Junior A Girls Dynos basketball team nets improvements

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The DVSS Junior A Girls Dynos took their match with Three Hills last week, and will be playing their last regular season game at home with Prairie Christian Academy February 26.
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   Junior A Girls Dynos Basketball are heading toward the end of their regular season, and their hard work and practice is showing.
   “They have improved 110 per cent from the beginning of the season,” said Coach Wendy Olson, noting the group of girls is starting to gel as a team. The team is made up of seven
grade 9 players and three grade 8 players.
   Olson said for the remainder of the team’s season, the coaches are looking for the players to nail down the fundamentals more solidly, with cleaner passing and stronger plays. “Our end result is to see improvement in all of our basketball players.”
   The Junior A girls Hosted an eight team tournament February 6 & 7 won by Clearwater Academy over Strathmore’s Crowther Memorial in the final game.
   St. Anthony’s took fourth place. Olson said the team won their final game, which was probably their best showing of the tournament.
   Olson said the team began hosting a home tournament when they moved back from the old central school about three years ago.
               For the upcoming year, she said coaches are looking at hosting a Junior A boys and girls tournament the same weekend, with four teams competing in each tournament.
   The last home game for the Junior A girls Dynos is February 26 versus Prairie Christian Academy. Olson said the team is hoping for a win, to place either second or third in the Golden Hills School Division League. The team plays league finals the end of March, and then heads to zone playoffs in Okotoks.

DVSS Dynos Junior Boys win bronze at home tournament

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The DVSS Junior high Dynos beat Clearwater Academy in the third place match to win bronze at their home tournament.

   The DVSS Dynos Junior Boys basketball team won bronze at their home tournament.
   The Dynos hosted an eight-team tournament last Friday and Saturday with tough teams from all over coming to battle on the court.
   “We had some lower skilled teams and some higher skilled teams, and then everything in between,” said Dynos coach Eric Neuman. “I think at the end of the day, the correct teams met in the correct matches for their final games.”
   The Dynos came out strong on Friday, beating Christ the King School 44-43.
   This put them in the semifinal versus Olds Koinonia Christian School. Olds was tough and won 64-36, advancing to the final to play Hanna.
   “We were vexed to address their bigs’ abilities. Their under the basket abilities trumped ours every time,” said Neuman.
   This put the Dynos in the bronze match to play Clearwater Academy. The Dynos played well, and won 57-42. Evan Flater was awarded the Tournament MVP for the Dynos.
   Neuman likes how his team is developing. He would like to see them work more on their passing and rebounding.
   He adds that he has a young team and sometimes nerves and confidence can affect their game.
   “When they know they can get the job done and I can get them to calm down, they behave the way they should,” said Neuman. “They get a little too jittery sometime and it fails them, but when they are calm they play their own game, and play well.”

Junior Curling League returns

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Heather Little, centre in the toque, provides curling tips to 11 year-old Jayden Wipf as she prepares to throw a rock. Thirteen year-old Kaylen Wipf and nine year-old Ella Andrew get ready to sweep the rock down the ice if needed.

Its had a few years absence, but a junior curling league is back at the Drumheller Curling Club to help young curlers learn the game.
   A group of volunteers with the Drumheller Curling Club has helped bring back a Junior Curling League. The club’s Heather Little, who helps coach the young curlers, said they’ve had in mind to restart for awhile, and everything came together nicely to get the junior league up and running.
   “I think it was about volunteers and having the right people in the right place and being prepared to put something together.”
   Little said a junior league has been absent from the Drumheller Curling Club for a number of years, and the club has received a lot of postive responses in bringing the league for the young players back.
   The club had compiled a list of names of people who had expressed interest in the junior league.
   “We had a good number people to contact about getting them involved and having kids participate in the league,” said Little.
   Twenty-five young curlers ended up taking part in the first session of the junior league, with most of the participants being from Drumheller.
   The league finished its first six-week session December 15, and will begin a second six-week session in January.
   The Junior Curling League is for kids ages eight to eighteen, and Little said there is room in the session that runs from January to March for new year for new curlers. Anyone interested in joining curling for the next session can call the curling club at 403 823-4848.

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