Tyler Lazarenko and Brendan Thera-Plamondon were as good as gold at the Alberta Schools’ Athletic Association track and field championships last weekend at Foothills Athletic Park in Calgary.
Lazarenko ran to victory in the intermediate male 100-metre dash with a time of 11.39 seconds.
The Grade 11 Bellerose Bulldog also won silver in the 200m at 22.35.
Thera-Plamondon tossed the discus the farthest in the senior male event with a measurement of 40.15m.
The Grade 12 St. Albert Skyhawk, who will join the Calgary Dinos in the fall on a football and track and field scholarship, also tied for sixth in long jump at 6.06m and placed eighth in triple jump at 12.23m.
Rounding out the contingent of athletes at provincials from St. Albert, Sturgeon and Morinville high schools are the following top-eight finishers.
• Morgan Christensen, Bulldogs: silver, female 100m intermediate (12.60); silver, 200m intermediate (24.64).
• Kyle Speer, Sturgeon Spirits: silver, male discus senior (38.00m); fourth, shot put senior (13.24m).
• Hailey Rosenthal, Spirits: bronze, female 100m junior (12.74).
• Jordan Rooke, Morinville Wolves: bronze, male discus senior (37.27m); sixth, javelin senior (45.67m).
• Zane MacDonald, Spirits: sixth, male 1,500m intermediate (4:28.23); sixth, 3,000m intermediate (9:55.45).
• Jakob Brinkhof, Bulldogs: sixth, male javelin junior (40.52m).
• Paige Knull, Skyhawks: sixth, female shot put intermediate (9.86m).
• Haley Cornelis, Wolves: sixth, female high jump junior (1.45m).
• Lindsay Riege, Paul Kane Blues: eighth, female 3,000m junior (12:18.26).
• Emma Newborn, Wolves: eighth, female discus intermediate (25.23m).
• Josh Lane, Wolves: eighth, male long jump intermediate (5.97m).
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The St. Albert Senior Cardinals are perched on top of the Alberta West Central Baseball Association standings after extending their winning streak to three games Monday.
Ace pitcher Dave Edwards went five-plus innings for the Cardinals (6-2) in the 10-2 drubbing of the Edmonton Heat (1-5) at Legion Memorial Park.
Last week the Cardinals edged the Stony Plain Codgers 6-5 in St. Albert and blasted the Edmonton Blues 13-5 at Wally Footz Field.
Matt Edwards was the winning pitcher against the Codgers (1-3) and also drilled the game winning walk-off double in the bottom of the seventh.
Jay Barley allowed two runs in five innings as the winning pitcher against the Blues (1-1). He also doubled, drove in a run and scored.
The Cardinals and Blues square off again this Monday at 6:45 p.m. in St. Albert.
This year the Cardinals will play in the Canadian Oldtimers Baseball Championships in the 35-plus age division. The Aug. 2 to 5 competition will also feature 44-plus and 50-plus divisions. Games will be held in St. Albert, Spruce Grove, Telus Field and other Edmonton diamonds.
The St. Albert Cardinals swept the Fort McMurray Oil Giants in a three-game homestand last weekend to remain unbeaten in the bantam AAA provincial seeding round.
The Cardinals are 8-0 in the provincial qualifier, and 9-5 in league play, after posting wins of 7-0, 13-11 and 4-2 over the Oil Giants at Legion Memorial Park.
In the series opener Dylan Gates allowed one hit over five innings and struck-out 12 to record his third win of the season.
Nate Brisson was solid in relief while giving up one hit.
James Robillard banged out a single and triple and drove in two runs to raise his team-leading RBI total to 15.
In game two the Cardinals built up a 13-3 lead after six innings. However, the Oil Giants found their bats in the seventh. A single, double and two triples mixed in with a couple of Cardinals’ errors allowed the visitors to score eight runs before Cole Seitz put out the fire in relief by striking out the final batter to end the nail-bitter.
Jeremy Gamracy was solid in his first start of the season and fanned seven while allowing two earned runs over 5-1/3 innings.
Robillard, Gates and Ross Supruniuk had multiple-hit games. Tylor Jans batted in two runs and Gamracy helped his own cause with three RBIs.
In the last game the Cardinals scored twice in the bottom of the sixth to break a 6-6 tie.
Supruniuk started on the mound and scattered four hits over 4-1/3 innings and allowed one earned run.
Brisson hurled 2-2/3 innings of relief to record the win.
Dan Tkachyk had two hits and Seitz, Spencer Dronkelaar and Peter Corrigan chipped in with one apiece.
Saturday the Cardinals are in Spruce Grove to play the host White Sox at 10 a.m. and the Okotoks Dawgs Red at 1 p.m.
Game ending walkoffs highlighted Saturday’s peewee AAA doubleheader between the St. Albert Cardinals and Sherwood Park A’s at Legion Memorial Park.
The Cardinals won the first game 12-10 on Morgan Melchert’s two-run homer in the bottom of the seventh.
Kelton Libich spread four hits over three innings and Davis Pratt struck-out six in four innings of relief.
Joseph Karall strung together three hits and drove in three runs and Colton Girard’s two hits included a solo home run.
The rematch ended with the A’s winning 5-4. With the score tied in the bottom of the seventh, after a one-out double and subsequent pass ball put the A’s catcher on third base, the Cardinals intentionally walked the next two hitters to set up a force play at the plate. Cardinals pitcher Liam Froment did his job to get the ground ball he was looking for, but the Red Birds couldn’t convert the out at home.
Tonight at 7 p.m. the Cardinals host the Red Deer Braves.
Saturday’s doubleheader against SEEBA starts at 12 p.m. in St. Albert.
