The 15th annual Spirit of the North wraps up today with an all-coloured belts tournament at Servus Credit Union Place.
The black-belt portion of the tournament was staged Friday night.
The Spirit of the North, hosted by the Desa School of Karate in St. Albert, features traditional Okinawan karate.
The only St. Albert Sabre selected in the Western Hockey League bantam draft Thursday was defenceman Evan Haimila.
The Moose Jaw Warriors picked the six-foot-two and 183-pound Haimila in the 10th round (202nd overall).
Haimila recorded four goals (two on the power play), eight assists and six penalty minutes in 33 games for the 17-12-4 Sabres, the fourth-place team in the nitro north standings of the Alberta Major Bantam Hockey League.
The St. Albert Drillers cashed in five times with the man advantage to defeat the Edmonton Senior Bandits 10-9 Wednesday in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League.
The last four goals by the junior B ladies were power-play tallies as the home team outscored the Bandits 5-3 in the third period at Akinsdale Arena.
Shayla Michayla led the Drillers (2-0) in scoring with three goals and three assists.
Marie-Eve Gautier and captain Brooke Huber potted a pair each and Savanna Wygiera, Sarah Wygiera, Katresa Shwetz and Janelle Wilk notched singles. In net was Morgan Crough.
The Drillers led 4-2 after 20 minutes.
The Bandits (1-2) struck once on the power play in the second and added a shorthanded goal in the third. The team’s last goal was scored with three seconds left to play.
The next game for the Drillers is Wednesday against the hometown junior A Sherwood Park Titans (1-1) at 8:30 p.m.
The RMLL female division consists of three senior teams, two junior A teams and three junior B teams.
After two games Huber is the Drillers’ top scorer with seven goals and eight points and Michayla has four goals and seven points.
Last year Michayla was the junior B division’s No. 1 point producer with 40 in 13 games and Huber led all scorers with 24 goals in 12 games.
Registrations are being accepted for the fifth annual Hawks Combo Camp for males and females 12 to 15 years old.
The Aug. 25 to 27 camp at St. Albert Catholic High School offers volleyball from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and basketball from 12:45 to 3:45 p.m.
Participants can register for one sport individually or attend the entire day and compete in both sports.
The registration fee is $95 for an individual session (nine hours of instruction) or $175 for both sessions (18 hours of instruction).
The camp helps prepare players for school volleyball and basketball club team tryouts under the direction of high-level coaches and provincial U17, Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference and Canadian Interuniversity Sport players.
For more information contact John Dedrick at [email protected].
