Patterns, sparring, board breaking and self-defence will be on display Saturday at the Western Canadian Taekwon-Do Championships in St. Albert.
The Canadian Taekwon-Do Alliance and Paladin Taekwon-Do Ltd., a local club serving the greater St. Albert region for more than a decade, are hosting the invitation-only tournament from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Bellerose Composite High School.
Admission is free to watch more than 120 competitors of various ages and belt categories.
The tournament starts with the youngest participants and ends with the most seasoned of the Korean martial art discipline.
The St. Albert Skyhawks are the No. 1-ranked senior women’s team in the metro Edmonton 3A zone volleyball tournament.
The Skyhawks and Oscar Romero Ravens are co-hosting pool play Friday and Saturday’s playoffs will be staged at the SkyDome. All matches are best-of-three sets.
Pool A consists of the Skyhawks, No. 3 St. Peter The Apostle Spartans, No. 5 Ardrossan Bisons and No. 7 Beaumont Bandits.
Friday’s match times for the Skyhawks are 2 p.m. against Beaumont, 4:15 p.m. against the Spartans and 7 p.m. against Ardrossan.
The No. 2 Sturgeon Spirits, No. 4 Louis St. Laurent Barons, No. 6 Ravens and No. 8 Old Scona form pool B.
The top three teams in both pools make the playoffs and the first-place teams receive byes into the semifinals at 12:15 and 1:15 p.m.
The final is 3:30 p.m. and the winner joins the Strathcona Christian Academy Eagles (5-5), the metro division one finalists, as the zone reps at the 3A provincials, Nov. 24 to 26 in Camrose.
Last year the Skyhawks won the 3A provincials after losing the division one final and this year finished 6-2 in league play as quarter-finalists.
Sturgeon (5-3) was a division two quarter-finalist this year.
Thursday the midget elite St. Albert Sharks face-off against the North Central Impact in the Alberta Female Hockey League.
Puck drop is 8:15 p.m. at Go Auto Arena.
The Sharks (5-3) and Impact (1-8) are second and fifth, respectively, in the north division.
The Sharks are winners of three in a row – 2-1 against the Impact in Leduc and 4-2 and 3-1 against the last-place Lloydminster Steelers (0-6-1) in the Border City.
Aidan Soltis is the Sharks’ top scorer with seven goals and 12 points and Payden Bialowas leads the team in assists with eight and is second in points with 11.
