St. Albert’s women’s team will be looking to score and score often against the Lep/Tigers Green today in the Edmonton Rugby Union women’s spring league at the St. Albert Rugby Football Club (SARFC). Game time is noon.
St. Albert has had a rough start to the spring league, starting the season 0-3, which has included a 48-3 loss to the Rockers, a 70-5 drubbing by the Druids Red and a close 24-20 loss to Crude/West last week.
Also today the second division men will ruck it up with the Clan. Game goes at 2:15 at Airways Park. St. Albert is hoping the second division men will extract some measure of revenge after the Clansmen’s first 15 walloped St. Albert’s Alberta Cup squad 53-12 last week.
The Midget AAA Cardinals welcome the Red Deer Braves today for a doubleheader at Legion Memorial Park, starting at noon. The second game is scheduled for 3 p.m.
The midget team spent last weekend in Fort McMurray for what was supposed to be a trio of games, but one of them was rained out. The Cardinals returned to St. Albert with a split, winning one game against the Fort McMurray Oil Giants 10-4 while dropping the second 10-6.
Fresh off their first Early Bird Tournament win last weekend, the bantam AAA Cardinals will host Okotoks Red today at Legion Memorial Park as well. The first pitch will be thrown at noon, with the second game following at 3 p.m.
Lloydminster will also come to town on Sunday for back-to-back games, also scheduled for noon and 3 p.m.
The bantam AAA Cardinals are coming off a tight defensive battle against the Spruce Grove White Sox at last weekend’s Early Bird Tournament in St. Albert. The host team squeaked out a 3-2 win in the championship game.
The bantam AA Cardinals don’t have a doubleheader today but instead host two different teams at two very different times.
The Red Birds will take the diamond at 9 a.m. against the visiting South Jasper Place Black at Legion Memorial Park. Then at 6 p.m., Grande Prairie will be in town.
The bantam AA Cardinals are also coming off an Early Bird Tournament win last weekend in St. Albert after they mercied the South Jasper Place Blue Jays 17-5 in four innings for the championship win.
Scouts from the four junior hockey leagues and the NCAA will be on hand at Servus Credit Union Place this weekend watching midget and junior-aged players show their stuff in a combine organized by The Inside Edge Hockey Development.
The event this weekend includes on-ice competition all day today and for half the day tomorrow at Mark Messier Arena with off-ice combine testing Saturday at 4 p.m. at the Servus Place fieldhouse.
Scouts from the AJHL, MJHL, BCHL and SJHL will be on hand, as well as those from universities and colleges in the United States.
