Ken Ann Cup The Ken Ann Cup north final between St. Albert and the Strathcona Druids in premier men's rugby... SAPEC volleyball The St. Albert Physical Education Council serves up its annual junior high volleyball tournament... Midget AAA tilts The puck drops this weekend for the St. Albert Raiders in the Alberta Midget AAA Hockey...
The Ken Ann Cup north final between St. Albert and the Strathcona Druids in premier men's rugby kicks off at 4 p.m. Saturday at Ellerslie Rugby Park.
The winner will scrum down against the Calgary Hornets (8-5) or the Calgary Canucks (9-4) in the Labatt's Cup provincial final Oct. 4 at Calgary Rugby Park.
The Hornets are the three-time defending provincial champions and in last year's final destroyed St. Albert 47-10 at Ellerslie.
St. Albert is competing in its seventh consecutive Ken Ann Cup and in five provincial appearances during that span celebrated the first Labatt's Cup in team history in 2010.
The last time St. Albert failed to win the Ken Ann Cup was 2012.
In the north semifinals St. Albert (12-1) thumped the Nor'Westers (4-9) 47-13 and the Druids (8-5) beat up the Clansmen (4-9) 45-20.
St. Albert is undefeated in five matches after losing 13-8 to the Druids in July on Druids Day at Sherwood Park.
The St. Albert Physical Education Council serves up its annual junior high volleyball tournament Friday.
At 2 p.m. the boys spike the ball at Paul Kane High School and Richard. S. Fowler School and the girls play at the SkyDome and Vincent J. Maloney School.
Saturday the tournament resumes at 8:45 a.m. and the finals are 3:45 p.m.
The draw features 56 best-of-three matches, with 16 boys' and 16 girls' teams divided into four round robin pools.
Meanwhile league play for SAPEC teams starts Oct. 7. Last year's Tier 1 city champions were the VJM Marauders (SAPEC record 13th for girls was the team's first city banner since 2009) and the Lorne Akins Gators (SAPEC record 14th for boys was the team's first city banner since 2010). The Sir George Simpson Voyageurs were the girls' and boys' finalists after winning the 2012 championships.
The Tier 1 finals are Nov. 13 at Bellerose Composite High School.
The puck drops this weekend for the St. Albert Raiders in the Alberta Midget AAA Hockey League.
The regular season starts Saturday against the Maple Leafs at 2:45 p.m. at Bill Hunter Arena.
Sunday's home opener against the Southside Athletic Club goes at 1:15 p.m. at Akinsdale.
The 2014 north division playoff finalists finished the exhibition schedule with a 5-2 record after losing 5-2 to the Southside and defeating the Leduc Oil Kings 4-1 last weekend in St. Albert.
