The St. Albert Ringette Association will celebrate National Ringette Week by showing off its colours Monday.
Players, officials, parents and fans will don St. Albert jerseys to promote the association during the Canada-wide event.
Several St. Albert teams also have games scheduled next week in the Black Gold League.
The association’s U6 and Introduction to Ringette program is also underway for 10 weeks every Saturday morning at Performance Arena. Another 10- week program will start after Christmas.
For more ringette information, visit www.stalbertringette.com.
Tuesday’s semifinals in metro Edmonton high school junior volleyball start at 4:45 p.m. for St. Albert teams in the premier and city conference.
The St. Albert Skyhawks (7-6) visit the Holy Trinity Trojans (11-2) in the premier girls division.
The final is Saturday at 1 p.m. at Austin O’Brien High School.
In the city boys’ playoffs the Paul Kane Blues (4-3) host the Archbishop MacDonald Marauders (2-5) and the Bellerose Bulldogs entertain the St. Francis Xavier Rams (1-6).
Thursday’s final is 4 p.m. at Austin O’Brien.
Chris Dobko of St. Albert ranks among the top Canada West leaders in several receiving categories for the Calgary Dinos.
The 21-year-old junior slotback finished the regular season in first place in receptions with 56 and touchdown catches with eight for the 7-1 Dinos.
The high school football product of the St. Albert High Skyhawks also ranked second in receiving yards with 676 and was the second-highest TD scorer in the conference.
The Paul Kane High School grad averaged 12.1 yards per catch and 84.5 yards per game.
In the CIS rankings the Dinos are listed second behind 2010 champion Laval University Rouge-et-Or.
Friday night the Dinos hosted the Regina Rams (3-5) in the Canada West semifinals, but the score was unavailable at press time.
Dobko is the only football player from St. Albert to play in two Vanier Cups and the Dinos lost both games.
St. Albert minor hockey products Colton Parayko and Connor Hoekstra were named to the Team Canada West roster for the World Junior A Challenge, starting Monday in Langley, B.C.
In the Alberta Junior Hockey League, Parayko is a defenceman for the Fort McMurray Oil Barons and Hoekstra is a forward for the Canmore Eagles.
They were among 34 players, including St. Albert defenceman Matt Benning of the Spruce Grove Saints, who attended the recent tryout camp. The players were selected from the Canadian Junior Hockey League’s five western junior A leagues. The AJHL was represented by 10 players and seven made the team.
Parayko, 18, has two goals and seven assists in 16 games after posting three goals and nine assists in 42 games in his AJHL debut with the Oil Barons. The six-foot-four, 191-pound blueliner is committed to the University of Alaska-Fairbanks.
Hoekstra, 18, is Canmore’s leading scorer with 10 goals and 14 points in 16 games. Last season he produced 10 goals and 12 assists in 58 games.
Canmore head coach Andrew Milne, a former St. Albert Saint who also played his minor hockey in St. Albert, is part of the Canada West coaching staff.
Tyler Bunz of the Medicine Hat Tigers was named the Canadian Hockey League’s goalie of the week to close out the month of October.
Bunz, 19, recorded his second shutout of the season with 30 saves to blank the Swift Current Broncos 5-0. The graduate of St. Albert Catholic High School also stopped 27 shots in the 4-2 win over the Portland Winterhawks.
The former bantam AAA Sabre and midget AAA Raider is one of the top goalies in the Western Hockey League with an 11-4 record, 2.33 GAA and .925 save percentage for the 12-5 Tigers. His career totals include 87 wins, a 2.74 GAA and .909 save percentage in 151 regular season games.
This is Bunz’s fourth full season with the Tigers. The 2010 NHL draft pick of the Edmonton Oilers (fifth round, 121st overall) attended Team Canada’s summer development camp and should get an invite to the final selection camp for the World Junior Championships, Dec. 26 to Jan. 5 in Edmonton and Calgary.
