Bellerose Bulldogs alumnus James Comeau will huddle up in the 13th annual East West Bowl on May 9 at McGill University in Montreal.
Comeau is one of three St. Francis Xavier X-Men selected to play in the CIS football prospects game, featuring for the most part players eligible for the 2016 CFL draft, and is the only Alberta product on the east all-star team.
The six-foot-two, 300-pound centre was a team captain in 2014. The engineering student started in all eight regular season games and played every snap.
Comeau’s strengths, according to his X-Men bio, include “a very high football IQ, and his hard work both on and off the field translate into consistency for the offence and leadership to his teammates.”
Comeau was the 2011 recipient of the Lee Grant Memorial Award, presented to the senior Bulldog who demonstrates outstanding qualities of fair play, sportsmanship, leadership and community involvement.
Comeau’s brother, John, a defensive lineman, recently signed with the X-Men, based in Antigonish, NS.
John’s teammate on the Bulldogs, offensive lineman Spencer Unrau, signed with the Acadia Axemen in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
Canadian welterweight Sheldon Westcott of St. Albert lost a unanimous decision to Pawel Pawlak last Saturday at a UFC Fight Night event in Krakow, Poland.
Westcott’s pro record is now 8-3-1.
Westcott, 30, was the aggressor in the first round but was tagged with two hard knees early in the second stanza and was later taken down by Pawlak. The Lodz, Poland fighter controlled the third round.
All three judges scored the bout 29-28 for Pawlak (11-1).
It was Westcott’s first fight since losing to Team Canada teammate Elias (The Spartan) Theodorou in The Ultimate Fighter Nations middleweight final last April in Quebec City.
The Paul Kane High School alumnus is the co-owner of the Complete Fitness and Martial Arts gym in Campbell Business Park.
The Bellerose Bulldogs and St. Albert Skyhawks medalled in their respective divisions in metro Edmonton high school badminton.
Bellerose was awarded silver in division two and the Skyhawks took home bronze in division three.
Bellerose finished league play tied for second in pool B at 7-2 (27 GW/18 GL) and reached the medal round by defeating the Holy Trinity Trojans, ranked second in pool A at 7-2 (29 GW/16 GL), 4-2 in the playoffs.
Bellerose beat the Strathcona Christian Academy Eagles, 5-4 (24 GW/21 GL) in pool A, 4-1 in the semifinals on Monday at W.P. Wagner High School. In the gold/bronze final, Bellerose lost 4-1 to the host Warriors, the top pool A team at 9-0 (40 GW/5 GL).
Bellerose placed first at 10-2 (40 GW/20 GL) in last year’s division two pool A standings.
The Skyhawks finished fourth in division three at 3-7 (23 GW/27 GL) and in the qualifying round eliminated the fifth-place 2-8 (16 GW/34 GL) Queen Elizabeth Knights 4-1.
The Skyhawks lost 5-0 to the host Sting, 9-1 (39 GW/11 GL) in league play, Monday at Fort Saskatchewan. In the bronze final, the Skyhawks knocked off the second-place 8-2 (29 GW/21 GL) Oscar Romero Ravens 3-2.
The Sting went on to win the gold/silver match against the third-place 6-4 (26 GW/24 GL) O’Leary Spartans.
Last year, the Skyhawks were winless in 12 division two pool A matches (18 GW/42 GL).
The Skyhawks team consisted of Brielle Anderson, Becky Boyd, Rachel Cruse, Zenn Velardo, Nestle Papolonias, Jordan Sadowsky, Feng Xu, Alexander Eyre, Christopher Hajek, Alexander Welling, Jonathan Martin, Johnathan Heemskerk, Cole Breda, Luke Harmon and Jeannie Dorn.
Cruse and Xu in mixed doubles, Martin in men’s singles and Hajek and Sadowsky in men’s doubles won their matches in the bronze medal round.
