The annual Early Bird tournament, hosted by the St. Albert Minor Baseball Association, starts Friday at 6:30 p.m. in all six divisions. Legion Memorial Park, Meadowview Diamonds and Stony Plain are the venues for the 46-team and 88-game schedule.
The annual Early Bird tournament, hosted by the St. Albert Minor Baseball Association, starts Friday at 6:30 p.m. in all six divisions.
Legion Memorial Park, Meadowview Diamonds and Stony Plain are the venues for the 46-team and 88-game schedule.
Monday's finals are 1 p.m. for peewee AA at Legion park and 3 p.m. for bantam AA and mosquito AA at Meadowview and midget AA, bantam AAA and peewee AAA at Legion park.
Visit www.stalbertbaseball.com for schedules and results.
SAMBA is represented in every division with nine Cardinals' teams in total.
It's a big year for the peewee AA, bantam AA and midget AA Cardinals with SAMBA hosting westerns in August.
Friday's senior AAA game between the St. Albert Tigers and Parkland White Sox in the Sunburst Baseball League starts at 7 p.m. in Spruce Grove.
Last weekend in the league opener the White Sox blanked the Tigers 3-0 in Spruce Grove.
Jessy Beley banged out three hits but the Tigers were unable to drive the power hitter home.
Craig Tomas threw six innings and gave up a two-run homer in the fifth. The next inning he got out of a sticky jam with runners on first and third with one out as the Tigers turned a ground ball into a double play.
Brad Macuch and Marc Stromme made their Tigers' debuts on the mound and they pitched in the seventh (Macuch) and eighth (Stromme) innings.
Monday the Tigers play the Confederation Park Cubs at 6:45 p.m. at John Fry Park.
The St. Albert Cardinals are in Sherwood Park tonight to play the Dukes in the NorWest Midget AAA Baseball League.
The first pitch is 6:30 p.m. at Centennial Park.
The 2014 Baseball Canada silver medallists and provincial midget AAA Tier I champions are 3-1 in league play after losing 10-0 to Okotoks Dawgs Red (3-1) Saturday in Okotoks.
The Cardinals were out-hit 10-2 in the five-inning affair.
The latest league stats list Jake Fischer tied for sixth in batting with a .538 average. He is also the team leader in runs batted in with four and hits with seven.
Matt Quartel has also tripled twice and Erik Sabrowski doubled twice.
In tournament action last weekend the Cardinals edged the Spruce Grove White Sox 8-7, lost 13-8 to the Vauxhall Jets and defeated the Dukes 10-4 in Okotoks.
The first Early Bird tournament game for the bantam AAA St. Albert Cardinals is 6:30 p.m. Friday against SEEBA at Legion Memorial Park.
Saturday the Cardinals play the Sherwood Park Athletics at 4 p.m. and the last round-robin game is Sunday against the East Central Bulls at 3 p.m.
Monday's semifinals start at 9 a.m. and noon and the final is 3 p.m.
The Cardinals are 3-1 in league play after Saturday's 7-1 loss to Okotoks Dawgs Black in Sherwood Park.
