The annual St. Albert Early Bird baseball tournament is under way at Legion Memorial Park and Meadowview Diamonds.
Forty teams are entered in the mosquito AA (eight), peewee AA (six), peewee AAA (six), bantam AA (six), bantam AAA (six) and midget AA (eight) divisions.
Monday’s finals are 1 p.m. for bantam AAA, peewee AAA and peewee AA at Legion park and bantam AA and mosquito AA at Meadowview and 3 p.m. for midget AA at Legion park.
Visit www.stalbertbaseball.com for schedules.
The St. Albert Soccer Association hosts its 27th annual Victoria Day Classic girls’ tournament this weekend.
The majority of the games are scheduled for the Riel Park pitches and turf field.
Forty tier I and II teams in the U12 (eight versus eight), U14, U16 and U18 age divisions are competing for medals. St. Albert Impact teams are represented in U12 tier I and tier II and U14 tier II.
The finals go Sunday and Monday. Visit www.stalbertsoccer.com for game times.
The season opener for the St. Albert Tigers Black in the Sunburst Baseball League is Tuesday in Fort Saskatchewan against the Athletics at 7 p.m.
The first Sunburst game for the St. Albert Tigers Orange is May 27 against Tigers Black at 8 p.m. at Legion Memorial Park.
Tigers Black is a senior AAA team and Tigers Orange is a junior AAA squad that will challenge for a berth at westerns. The goal for Tigers Orange is to play in the North Central Alberta Baseball League next year.
At the senior AAA provincials in August, the Tigers Baseball Association will enter an all-star team of players from both the Black and Orange line-ups.
The last games before the playoffs in metro Edmonton premier women’s rugby kicks off Tuesday for the Paul Kane Blues and Bellerose Bulldogs.
The Blues (2-0) scrum down against the Sturgeon Spirits (1-1) at 4:45 p.m. at Pirates Rugby Club. Sturgeon is the two-time defending premier champion and bronze medallist the last two years at tier 1 (4A schools) provincials. In the premier final last year Sturgeon beat the Blues 32-0.
The Blues are coming off a 100-0 thumping of the Archbishop Jordan Scots (0-2) and Sturgeon dropped a 22-20 decision to the Bev Facey Falcons (2-0).
The Bulldogs (0-2), last year’s city conference champions, and the Scots play at 4:45 p.m. in Sherwood Park.
The top two teams in pools A and B in the crossover fixtures qualify for the May 26 semifinals. The final is June 1 at 4:45 p.m. at Ellerslie Rugby Park. The winner advances to the tier I provincials June 10-11 in Calgary.
