Two Foothills area chuckwagon drivers sit comfortably in the top 10 of the World Professional Chuckwagon Association standings after the Medicine Hat Stampede last week.
Jason Glass of High River is in seventh place with 220 points, while Okotoks’ Mark Sutherland was right behind him in eighth place with 213 points.
Glass finished in fifth-place out of the 36 drivers in Medicine Hat, earning 109 points. Sutherland finished the Medicine Hat show with 105 points.
Glass got off to a slow start placing 17th and 14th overall on the first two nights of racing on June 9 and 10. He finished with a flurry as he was third and second respectively on June 11 and 12.
Glass’ second-place finish on June 12 was in a time of one minute, 55 seconds, which was beaten by Kurt Bensmiller who set a track record time of 1:00.17.
Grant Profit of Cochrane won the Medicine Hat Stampede and he sits first in the WPCA standings.
Brian Mayan of High River struggled in The Hat. He finished 34th in the aggregate. He was hit by a no time penalty on June 11 and took nine seconds of penalties on the final day of racing in Medicine Hat. He is 36th overall in the WPCA.
The wagons roll into Drumheller for the Richard Cosgrave Badlands Dinosaur Derby this weekend.
They make their annual stop in High River for the North American Chuckwagon Championships July 23-26. For ticket information call 403-652-3336.
To see the final standing of the Medicine Hat chuckwagon races and the standings, see Scoreboard on page 22.
Kat wins
Okotoks golfer Kat Kennedy won the girl’s division at the Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour’s MJT Mountain View Credit Union Series at the Olds Central Highlands Golf Club in Olds this weekend.
Kennedy, a Grade 10 student at Foothills Composite High School, had consistent rounds of 81-81-162 to finish one stroke ahead of Sydney MacDonald from Calgary.
“I just tried to play my best, and stay calm out there. I didn’t score great but am happy with the result,” Kennedy said.
The 15-year-old Kennedy was also named the golf team’s MVP of the 2010 Foothills Composite Falcons Awards banquet on June 6.
