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Gareth Jones Cup The Gareth Jones Cup will be played with heavy hearts Thursday at St. Albert Rugby Football Club. The sixth edition of the Battle of St.

RunWild on Sunday St. Albert’s largest sporting event of the year is the eighth annual Leading Edge Physiotherapy RunWild on Sunday. More than 1,600 runners and walkers have registered for the 21.

Bantam AAA games The bantam AAA St. Albert Cardinals fly into action this weekend during a doubleheader homestand at Legion Memorial Park. Today the Cardinals host the South Jasper Place Jays at 12 noon and the Fort McMurray Oil Giants at 6 p.m.

Storm at home The last game for the St. Albert Storm in the midget spring league season kicks off today at 4:30 p.m. against the Edmonton Mustangs at Larry Olexiuk Field. Admission is $5 for 12 years and older.

The new face of Bulldogs Football is Jason Lafferty. The former assistant coach with the Alberta Golden Bears replaces Chad Hill as the head coach of the division one Carr conference team at Bellerose Composite High School.

Jordan Maksymic is playing a bigger role on the offensive side of the ball for the Edmonton Eskimos as the pass-game coordinator while coaching the quarterbacks for the third year in a row on the Canadian Football League team.

Norwest baseball The St. Albert Cardinals are up to bat tonight in the Norwest Midget AAA Baseball League. The first pitch is 6:30 p.m.

Storm rising The St. Albert Storm share second place with one game left in the Capital District Minor Football Association midget spring league.

Dan Holowaychuk is still vibrating from the aftershock of winning the world senior men’s curling championship with the Wade White rink. “It’s a pretty good feeling,” a revved-up Holowaychuk told the Gazette on Monday morning upon returning to St.

Registrations for the eighth annual Leading Edge Physiotherapy RunWild are ahead of last year’s pace by 350 runners and walkers. Monday’s total of 1,525 includes 600 for the 1.3-kilometre WildOnes Kids MaraFun and 300 for the 10-km walk/run.