Jeff Bruha and Andrew Moore turned in hat-trick performances as the St. Albert Impact premier men thumped the Edmonton Warriors 7-2 Thursday in the Edmonton District Soccer Association.
Bruha is among the league’s top scorers with 10 goals.
Rob Furlong, a new addition this year from the Rummies in the St. Albert Men’s Soccer League, also scored against the last-place Warriors at the ESA Complex.
In net was Adam Pinco.
The Impact are 5-4-1 after their third win in six matches.
The next game is this Thursday versus the KC Trojans at 8:30 p.m. at Riel Recreation Park.
Team East will represent Canada at the 2013 Danone Nations Cup in England after edging Team West 3-2 last weekend to determine Canada’s entry in the largest international soccer tournament for players in the 10 to 12 age range.
Jordan Thom, a goalkeeper for the St. Albert U14 Tier 2 team, was in net for Team West at Saputo Stadium in Montreal.
There was no scoring in the last 20 minutes of the game.
Thom, 12, was selected to the team after a series of tryouts to determine the lineup of 11 players from Alberta and British Columbia.
Last year the Grade 6 graduate from J.J. Nearing Catholic Elementary School tried out for the team but was cut after the second leg of evaluations.
The bantam AAA St. Albert Cardinals are in Okotoks this weekend for the Dawgs Canada Day Tournament.
The Cardinals have games scheduled against the Regina Buffalos, Saskatoon Braves, Regina Kiwanis Nationals and Okotoks Dawgs Red.
In league play the Cardinals are 12-3 in the provincial qualifier format and 13-8 overall after splitting a pair of doubleheaders against teams below them in the standings last weekend at Legion Memorial Park.
Against the Calgary Cubs the Cardinals won 10-0 and lost 3-1.
Dylan Gates limited the Cubs to two hits while striking-out nine for his fifth win of the season. Anthony Owen drove in three runs and James Robillard and Gates had a pair each.
In game two the Cardinals left seven runners on base while collecting five hits. Owen’s first home run this season opened the scoring in the second inning. He also started on the mound and threw four scoreless innings.
The Cubs had four hits, but in the fifth back to back singles and a double generated three runs.
The next day the Cardinals beat Okotoks 7-3 and lost 12-4 to the Sherwood Park A’s.
Ross Supruniuk allowed two earned runs over 4-2/3 innings and Spencer Dronkelaar surrendered one hit the rest of the way against Okotoks.
It was 2-2 entering the seventh when Okotoks made a pitching change and the Cardinals capitalized with five runs on one hit, four walks and one hit batsman. Peter Corrigan’s hit broke it open for the home team.
A seven-run third inning by the A’s left the Cardinals reeling in game two. They were held to four hits and Jeremy Gamracy and Corrigan split pitching duties.
Meanwhile, off-field manager Charlene Barclay organized a fundraiser on behalf of the Canadian Red Cross for the southern Alberta flood victims last weekend at Legion park and collected $380.85.
Visit www.redcross.ca to make a donation.
The peewee AAA St. Albert Cardinals salvaged two points last weekend after losing twice to the Spruce Grove White Sox.
Sunday the Cardinals doubled the hometown Red Deer Braves 8-4 following losses of 7-6 and 13-8 to the White Sox the day before in Spruce Grove.
The Cardinals (8-5) and Braves (8-10) share second place in the Baseball Alberta standings behind the Sherwood Park A’s (13-2).
The fourth-place White Sox (6-8) battled back from a 5-0 deficit in the sixth inning with the help of two errors and finished the comeback in game one with a walkoff double in the bottom of the seventh.
Starting pitcher Joseph Karall threw three innings of no-hit ball and Zach Froment batted 2-for-2 with two walks.
A leaky defence in game two left the Cardinals trailing 7-0 in the top of the first. The Red Birds scratched their way back to within two runs after six but the White Sox counted three in the seventh to complete the sweep.
The Cardinals tightened up defensively against the Braves and starting pitcher Colton Girard gave up two his and two runs over four innings while compiling six strikeouts. Logan McKinley and Froment threw in relief.
The offence was led by Davis Pratt’s two hits and Rhys Mazur’s single, walk and two runs scored.
The Cardinals return to the diamond July 7 for a doubleheader against the Braves in Red Deer.
