The 30th annual Alberta Cup for second-year bantams starts Thursday in Canmore for eight local hockey players on the Northwest team.
Netminders Evan Fradette and Ryley Osland, defencemen Kyle Fulton and Justin MacDonald and forwards’ Stuart Dovey, Brady Nicholas and Blake Sydlowski are representing the St. Albert Gregg Distributors Sabres.
Cameron Aucoin, a forward from Sturgeon County with the PAC Saints of Spruce Grove, is also on the team.
The eight Alberta Cup teams were finalized at zone camps last month for players born in 2001.
The Alberta Cup is the last major competition for Western Hockey League scouts to attend before the May 5 bantam draft.
Eighty players from the four-day tournament will be invited to the U16 provincial camp in July for spots on Team Alberta at the Western Canada U16 Challenge Cup in October at Calgary.
The St. Albert Impact Rangers are back on the pitch Saturday in the Edmonton District Soccer Association.
The men’s division 1A match against Sherwood Park Karpaty kicks-off at 2 p.m. at the ESA Complex.
The Rangers are coming off a third-place showing last year, with seven wins, three ties and four losses and a goals for/against of plus 11.
A pair of longtime Rangers, Marc Tetreau and Mike Thompson, led the team in scoring with eight goals apiece.
Monday at midnight is the online registration deadline for the Wildones Kids MaraFun through www.runwild.ca.
As of Monday, 544 elementary students were confirmed for the sixth annual Leading Edge RunWild on May 15 at Lions Park.
Students complete the last 1.6 kilometres of their very own 42-km marathon that started at their schools by running or walking one km at a time leading up to RunWild.
The MaraFun program was presented in 14 schools in the Capital Region in 2015 and averages 575 students per year.
RunWild is undergoing a transition year without the half-marathon and 10- and five-km races as organizers focus on youth involvement after the temporary loss of the race-day headquarters at the St. Albert 50+ Club and construction has impacted the start/finish staging area and logistics of the routes.
Run Wild has averaged 1,850 runners the last five years.
Since 2011, RunWild has raised more than $350,000 for two charities: the Zebra Child Protection Centre and the St. Albert 50+ Club.
