The St. Albert Rugby Football Club played a prominent role in Canada’s 52-25 throttling of Brazil in the Americas Rugby Championship last Saturday at Westhills Stadium in Langford, B.C.
Eight-man Clay Panga, SARFC player/coach for the 2015 Labatt’s Cup premier men’s provincial champions, scored the first two test tries of his career in his third start in a row, while SARFC scrumhalf Jake Robinson made his test debut coming on as a replacement in Canada’s second win of the tournament.
Kyle Baillie, a second row and former SARFC player now based with the Halifax Tars, also came off the bench in his second test match.
SARFC winger/fullback Duncan Maguire, who scored a sensational highlight-reel try in the 69th minute of the 30-22 loss to the USA Eagles on Feb. 13 in Austin Texas, was sin-binned in the 21st minute for a late and high tackle.
Kyle Gilmour, a Team Canada flanker at the 2015 World Cup of Rugby, didn’t play because of an undisclosed injury.
It was the first time Canada and Brazil had ever met in an official test match.
Canada wraps up the tournament in South America against Argentina on Sunday and Chile on March 5.
Sunday’s match will be shown live at SARFC at 1 p.m.
St. Albert is one of 15 locations across Canada to host a Blue Jays Honda Super Camp this summer.
The Blue Jays Baseball Academy, in partnership with Baseball Canada and Little League Canada, are hosting the instructional camps for male and female players nine to 16 years old. The instructors are Blue Jays alumni and former Major League Baseball all-stars.
The St. Albert camp is July 11-12 at Legion Memorial Park.
The cost is $99 for the one-day camp and $199 for both days.
Online registration starts in March through the Blue Jays Baseball Academy at toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/tor/baseball_academy/.
For more information, visit www.stalbertbaseball.com
Meanwhile, rep tryouts start Tuesday in the St. Albert Minor Baseball Association.
All 13 Lorne Akins Crush wrestlers medalled in their weight categories at the Provincial Junior Olympics last weekend in Hinton.
Winning gold were Rylan Baerg in Grade 9 and Elly Bordian, Declan Cayanga, Afrosyob Gulam and Nico Gallo in Grade 7.
The silver medallists included Anna Smith in Grade 9 and Kimana Gillis in Grade 8.
Bronze medals were awarded to Aidan Orr, in Grade 9, Chris Manchester, in Grade 8, and Leah Gagnon, Lily Smith, Callum McDowall and Lyall McMillan, all in Grade 7.
In the team results, the male Crushers finished first overall and the females placed second.
Last year, the Crushers returned home from provincials with three gold, four silver and five bronze.
At the recent Alberta Winter Games in Medicine Hat, the Crush were represented by Baerg, Cayanga, Manchester, McMillan, Lily Smith, Anna Smith, William Diederichs and Alexa Bereziuk.
Cayanga was the male 47-kilogram silver medallist and Baerg was the male 76-kg bronze medallist.
