Friday the St. Albert based-NAMLC Crude junior B Tier I lacrosse team hosts the Red Deer Rampage in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League north division final.
Game time is 8:30 p.m. at Akinsdale Arena.
Game two goes Saturday in Red Deer, with location and start time to be announced. Game three, if needed, is Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at Akinsdale.
In league play the Crude (14-5-1) finished first and the Rampage (13-6-1) placed second in the five-team division.
The teams split the four-game season series, with the Crude winning the last two contests 13-10 and the 12-10 after losses of 9-7 and 8-7 in May.
Erik Turner was the Crude’s top gun with 43 goals and 90 points in only 13 games for second place in the north scoring race.
In the best-of-three north semifinals the Crude defeated the fourth-place Saskatchewan SWAT (9-11) 2-1 in St. Albert. Scores were 13-10 Crude, 10-9 Swat and 11-9 Crude.
The Rampage swept the third-place Edmonton Warriors (9-10-1) 22-14 and 6-4.
St. Albert’s medal contenders for Team Alberta at the Aug. 2 to 17 Canada Summer Games in Sherbrooke, Que. are as follows.
Mackenzie Bender (softball), Evie Fletcher (cycling – road), Emily Flowers (swimming), Whitney Follette (indoor volleyball – female), Rachel Francois (athletics), Georgia Kidd (swimming), Garrett King (athletics), Paige Kremer (swimming), Mackenzie Lubberding (swimming), Marinya Marcichiw (basketball – female), Adeline Maunder (triathlon), Tyler Rae Molloy (soccer – female), Brent Sagert (diving), Sarah Thomas (softball) and Jackson Wark (baseball).
Team Alberta coaches from St. Albert are Gord Gerlach (baseball) and Nathan Kindrachuk (swimming).
The Canada Games will feature 4,200 athletes in 20 disciplines at 20 different venues.
The largest multi-sport competition for young Canadian athletes is held every two years (alternating between the winter and summer Games) in a different province or territory.
Visit www.canadagames.ca for more information.
St. Albert Impact players Noah Cunningham and Zach Rochat returned home from the Canadian Soccer Association championship all-star tournaments last week in Laval, Que. with medals with their respective Team Alberta squads.
Cunningham, a centre midfielder, played for the U16 silver medallists and Rochat, a right halfback, was a member of the U15 bronze medallists.
The U16 team lost its opening match to British Columbia 2-1, then beat Quebec 2-1 and Saskatchewan/Manitoba 3-0 before losing the gold-medal final 1-0 to Ontario.
The U15 team dropped its first match, 3-0 to Ontario, before defeating British Columbia 3-1, Saskatchewan/Manitoba 4-1 and Team Atlantic 3-2 for the bronze. Rochat scored the second goal against Atlantic with a 20-yard free kick.
Cunningham and Rochat play for the Impact U16 Tier I team.
