The St. Albert Physical Education Council junior high basketball league rattles the rim today at the Elmer S. Gish and Sir George Simpson schools.
The Gish Warriors host the Vincent J. Maloney Marauders and the Morinville Wolves visit the Simpson Voyageurs.
Game times are 4 p.m. for the girls and 5:30 p.m. for the boys.
Meanwhile, the Lorne Akins Gators are competing in the Titans Tri-Prov tournament at Harry Ainlay High School. The boys play Avalon at 4:45 p.m. Thursday and the girls, last year’s champions, are in action Friday against Rundle College at 4:45 p.m.
Visit triprov.ainlay.ca for the junior high draws.
The Gators are the defending SAPEC Tier I city boys division and girls division champions.
The St. Albert Lady Raiders continue their six-game homestand this week in the Alberta Major Bantam Female Hockey League.
Tonight the Raiders host the defending champion Edmonton Lightning at 7:30 p.m. and Thursday’s game against the Sherwood Park Royals starts at 8:15 p.m. at Go Auto Arena.
The Lightning (15-2-2), Royals (11-5-3) and Raiders (10-5-4) are the top three teams in the north division.
The Raiders kicked off the homestand in Saturday’s 5-2 win over the Southeast Tigers (4-16), the last-place team in the south.
Kylie Foisy, Payden Bialowas, Kendra Johnson, Aidan Soltis and Elleson Rezewski scored and Natasha Borrett (5-5, 1.71 GAA) stopped 21 shots.
The Paul Kane Blues play a rescheduled game Thursday against the St. Francis Xavier Rams in metro Edmonton division one men’s basketball.
Tipoff is 5 p.m. at SFX High School.
The Rams are 3-2 and the Blues are 1-5.
The North Central Senior AA Hockey League playoff series between the Morinville Kings and Tofield Satellites resumes Saturday at Ray McDonald Sports Centre.
Puck drop is 8:30 p.m.
Game three in the best-of-five north division semifinal is 7 p.m. Sunday in Tofield.
If needed, game four is Feb. 6 at 8:30 p.m. in Morinville and game five is Feb. 7 at 5:30 p.m. in Tofield.
The Satellites won the series opener 7-1 last weekend on home ice.
The Satellites (11-4-1) and Kings (8-7-1) finished second and third, respectively, in the north standings.
The teams split the season series with road wins
The winner plays the first-place Bonnyville Pontiacs (15-1) or fourth-place Whitecourt Wild (7-9) in the best-of-five north final.
