The St. Albert Charge are representing Alberta at the Western Canadian Ringette Championships in Richmond, B.C.
The U19A provincial champions played Saskatchewan and the host team from Richmond on Thursday. Friday’s games were against British Columbia and Manitoba. Scores were unavailable at press time.
The top three teams qualified for today’s medal round and the remaining two teams meet in the fourth/fifth game.
Visit www.richmondringette.com for results.
The Charge were 14-16-3 overall on the eve of westerns after going 13-2-2 since December.
The deadline to register online for the St. Albert Road Race, formerly known as the St. Albert 10-Miler, is April 14 through www.zone4.ca.
The April 17 event features the historic Tech Shop 10-Miler, plus the Sturgeon Valley Athletic Club 10-kilometre race and the Active Physio Works five km.
Last year’s top male and female finishers were Dusty Spiller (53 minutes and 17 seconds) of Red Deer and Emily Setlack (59:34, 10th overall) of Cold Lake in the 10-miler, Matt Setlack (32:37) of Cold Lake and Jodi Nesbitt (39:33, 10th overall) of Red Deer in the 10 km and Luke Hanson (16:47) and Abby Wilson (19:42, ninth overall) of St. Albert in the five km.
Emily Setlack was the sixth multiple winner of the fastest female crown in the 30-year history of the 10-miler and first female to repeat since Tara Struyk of Edmonton in 2010.
Last year marked the debut of the 10-km race, a condensed version of the north section of the 10-miler, and the five-km race replaced the six-km distance the previous two years.
The road race is hosted by the St. Albert Road Runners and Triathlon Club.
Visit www.starrt.wildapricot.org for more information.
The Crude Lacrosse Club of St. Albert makes its season debut at the Junior B North Icebreaker next weekend at South Side Arena.
The four-team tournament features two 25-minute straight time periods.
The Crude is on the floor Saturday at 12:30 p.m. against the Fort Saskatchewan Rebels, 4 p.m. against the Sherwood Park Titans and 7:30 p.m. against the Edmonton Warriors.
Playoff games are 1 and 2 p.m. Sunday.
League play for the Crude starts April 29 against the Rebels at 9 p.m. at Akinsdale Arena.
Last year the Crude finished fourth in the Tier I north division at 8-13 and lost the best-of-five provincial qualifier in three games to the first-place Red Deer Rampage (14-5-1).
