Fastball St. Albert hosts its 14th annual invitational tournament this weekend at the Meadowview and Mission diamonds.
Divisions include squirt to bantam for girls and peewee and bantam for boys.
Teams competing in the girls’ draw include the host St. Albert Angels, as well as teams from Saskatoon, Edmonton, Calgary, Lloydminster and other parts of the province. On the boys’ side are teams from Saskatoon, Prince Albert and Calgary.
Visit www.fastballstalbert.com for more information.
The junior A St. Albert Miners play twice this weekend at Bill Hunter Arena in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League.
Game times are 9 p.m. tonight against the junior A Edmonton Eclipse (4-7) and 1 p.m. Sunday against the senior B Edmonton Outlaws (4-4-1).
The Miners (4-7) are 2-1 in their last three games.
The team’s top scorer is Darren Kinnear with 22 goals and 34 points in 11 games. David Lehman ranks scoring in points with 30, with 11 goals and 19 assists in nine games.
The St. Albert women and second division men’s teams hope to reverse their losing ways today in the Edmonton Rugby Union (ERU).
The women play Crude/West (1-4) in Leduc and the seconds tackle the Knights (2-1) in Fort McMurray. Kickoff times are 2 p.m.
The women are 0-5 (19 PF/378 PA) in the eight-team spring league. The top teams in the round-robin tournament move up to the Alberta premier league and the bottom teams will play in the ERU second division in late June.
The seconds, the ERU playoff finalists the last three years, are 0-2 (20 PF/56 PA).
The overall record of the four teams representing the St. Albert Rugby Football Club this year is 2-13.
With a provincial berth on the line, the St. Albert Skyhawks dropped a 26-14 decision to the Beaumont Bandits in Tuesday’s tier II (3A schools) metro Edmonton playoff in Sherwood Park.
Despite a short bench the Skyhawks kept the score respectable with tries in the third and fourth quarters by Craig Trischuk and Stephen Cain, respectively. The second try was initiated by Trischuk. The man of the match also kicked both converts.
In league play Skyhawks were 1-4 as the city conference finalists and Beaumont was 3-1.
