The Baseball Alberta bantam performance tier I championships are under way at Legion Memorial Park.
The round robin draw features SEEBA, Sherwood Park Gold, Red Deer Braves, Foothills Black and the St. Albert Cardinals. The host team’s record is 20-10 (17-4 in league play and 3-6 in tournaments).
Four games were scheduled Friday. The rest of the games are as follows:
Today
S.P. Gold vs. Foothills, 9 a.m.
Red Deer vs. SEEBA, noon
Foothills vs. St. Albert, 3 p.m.
SEEBA vs. S.P. Gold, 6 p.m.
Sunday
Foothills vs. Red Deer, 9 a.m.
St. Albert vs. S.P. Gold, noon
If there are no tiebreakers, the final is 3 p.m. Sunday.
If the first place team is undefeated in the round robin and loses Sunday, a sudden-death playoff goes Monday at 10 a.m. to determine the champion.
Visit www.stalbertbaseball.com or www.baseballalberta.com for more information.
Tyler Bunz of St. Albert is one of four goalies among 46 players that will participate in the national junior team’s summer development camp starting Wednesday at Rexall Place.
The Edmonton Oilers’ draft pick (fifth round, 121st overall in 2010) is on the team white roster that practices Wednesday at 6 p.m., Thursday at 10 a.m. and Friday at 11:30 a.m.
The red/white intersquad game is Saturday at 7 p.m. at Rexall.
The World Junior Championship runs Dec. 26 to Jan. 5 in Edmonton and Calgary.
Bunz, 19, earned an invite to the summer camp after attending a Hockey Canada goalie camp last month in Calgary.
In the Western Hockey League the former bantam AAA Sabre and midget AAA Raider compiled a 35-13-8 record, 2.47 GAA and .919 save percentage in his third season with the Medicine Hat Tigers.
Player registrations are being accepted for the St. Albert Steel hockey school running Aug. 15 to 19 at Servus Credit Union Place.
Age group sessions are 6 to 8, 9 to 10, 11 to 12 and 13 to 14. All participants will receive 10 hours of ice time, five hours of dry-land instruction devoted to speed, agility, power, endurance and flexibility, two tickets to the Steel’s home opener Sept. 16 and a Steel hockey school jersey.
Current and former Steel players will also make an appearance.
For more information, visit www.steelhockey.ca or contact Finnuala Pollard-Kientzel at the Steel office at 780-459-5218.
Meanwhile, the fourth annual Steel golf tournament is Aug. 24 at the Sandpiper Golf & Country Club. The entry form is available on the Steel website.
