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The Red Deer Vipers scored three unanswered second-period goals en route to a 4-2 Heritage Junior B Hockey League win over the Three Hills Thrashers on Monday at the Arena.

Kings 3 Kodiaks 0When the first Canadian Colleges Athletic Association men’s volleyball rankings came out Tuesday RDC Kings head coach Aaron Schulha liked what he saw.

The RDC Kings are playing a bit shorthanded but you’d never know it.The Kings are without veteran forward Joel Carroll, who missed his second game in a row with an ankle injury, yet rolled to a 101-67 victory over the NAIT Ooks in Alberta Colleges Men’s Bask

The curling fraternity is large, but also close.And so it was by word of mouth and the magic of social media that Red Deer’ Whitney Eckstrand (nee More) joined forces with Amy Nixon, Nadine Chyz and Tracy Bush to form a competitive quartet for the 2012-13 season.

The 2013 Allan Cup host Bentley Generals battled back from a 3-0 deficit Sunday but fell 5-3 to the visiting Fort Saskatchewan Chiefs in Chinook Hockey League play.

For years the RDC Kings opened their Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference men’s volleyball exhibition season against the Canadian National Masters team.But it got to a point where it didn’t do what the Kings wanted. So to add a bit more of a draw and excitement to the evening the Kings made it a strictly alumni affair.

Brandon Clowes scored twice and Ethan Jemieff made 38 saves to lead the Olds Grizzlys to a 3-1 AJHL win over the Camrose Kodiaks Monday.

It would be easy to compare this year’s edition of the Red Deer Optimist Rebels to last year’s Telus Cup championship squad.

Don’t ask RDC golf coach Scott Bergdahl to make any predictions heading into the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference Northern Regional championships this weekend at Redtail Landing near Leduc.

The Hunting Hills Lightning scored on their first play of the game and rolled to a 58-0 victory over the Camrose Trojans in Central Alberta High School Football League exhibition play before 322 fans at Great Chief Park Thursday.