Sports Extra

The medal haul by St. Albert and area athletes at the Alberta Summer Games last weekend in Airdrie was highlighted by the gold-medal winning performance of the Zone 5 (Black Gold/Yellowhead) baseball team.

Six players from the bantam AAA St. Albert Cardinals – Peter Corrigan, Colton Girard, Tylor Jans, Cole Seitz, Ross Supruniuk, Danny Tkachyk – and the team’s coaching staff – dugout boss Dave Maguire, pitching coach Fred Mills, third-base coach Kurtus Millar and first-base coach John Tkachyk – contributed to the team’s 5-0 record. The tournament was played on midget diamond dimensions.

Zone 5 posted victories of 21-1 against Zone 1 (Lethbridge/Medicine Hat region, but the Little League playoffs were staged on the same weekend so most of the zone’s better players were not in Airdrie), 3-1 against Zone 3 (consisting of 10 players from Okotoks Black, the No. 1 ranked team at the bantam AAA Tier I provincials this weekend at Legion Memorial Park), 10-1 against Zone 8 (Grande Prairie region), 10-6 in the crossover playoffs against Zone 4 (Red Deer and Camrose region) after falling behind 5-0 and in the gold-medal game 12-2 against Zone 3.

Corrigan was solid defensively in centre-field, Girard played a strong role in a utility capacity, Jans was the winning pitcher in game one and closed out the final while holding the infield together at shortstop, Seitz was the winning pitcher in the semifinal with a very good relief effort, Supruniuk played first base while banging out timely hits and running the basepaths with passion and Tkachyk was outstanding at catcher.

The following athletes also returned home with medals.

St. Albert

Athletics – Jakob Brinkhof: gold (U17 male javelin, 46.26 metres); bronze (U17 male shot put, 12.52m, and hammer throw, 36.65m); Emmett Clarkin: gold (U17 male medley relay); Emma Curle: gold (U17 female medley relay); Madelyn Curle: gold (U15 female medley relay and high jump, 1.55m); bronze (U15 female 200m, 26.54, 300m, 44.36, 4x100m relay and 400m, 1:01.78); Brooklyn Failing: gold (U17 female high jump, 1.55m); bronze (U17 female long jump, 4.73m); Ryder Horton: silver (U15 male 2,000m, 6:17.78); bronze (U15 male medley relay); Catherine Kluyts: gold (U15 female medley relay); silver (U15 female 80m hurdles, 12.18, and 200m hurdles, 28.86); bronze (U15 female 4x100m relay); Mikaela Lazarenko: bronze (U15 female 4x100m relay); Daylen Pacheco: bronze (U15 male medley relay); Spencer Unrau: silver (U17 male hammer throw, 40.80m).

Basketball – Lily Armstrong, Abby Morrison, Alesha Stanley, Ella Stanley: gold (female tournament).

Football – Nick Allen, Sam Cuciz, Colton Meronyk, Logan Moreau, Matt Schaaf, Jesse Stuht, Anthony Swecera and Keaton Zaychkowsky: bronze.

Lacrosse – Jacob Parent and Bryce Schmermund: bronze.

Rugby – Annie Boyd and Anna Manchester: silver (female tournament).

Soccer – Evan Brassard and Josh Klassen: gold (male tournament); Julia McDougall and Emma Richardson: bronze (female tournament).

Swimming – Connor Bissett: gold (category 5 male 50m breast, 42.54, 100m free, 1:07.83, 50m free, 30.23, and 100m back, 1:19.60); silver (category 5 male 100m breast, 1:29.72, and 50m back, 37.58); Francisco Nef-Ojeda: silver (category 3 male 100m fly, 1:14.18, and 200m fly, 2:50.78); bronze (category 3 male 400m individual medley, 5:50.90, and 50m fly, 33.17); Amy Nelson: gold (category 5 female 100m breast, 1:39.70, and 50m breast, 45.63); silver (category 5 para and SO, 1:28.25, and category 5 female 50m fly, 41.77); bronze (category 5 female 50m free, 39.39); Riley Waples: gold (female 12-13 4x50m free relay); bronze (category 4 female 100m individual medley, 1:20.96).

Triathlon – Payton Basterash and Sasha Tanasiuk: gold (12-13 co-ed team relay, 1:27:25); Luke Hanson: gold (14-15 male, 40:11); Hayley Basterash: bronze (14-15 female, 45.01).

Calahoo

Soccer – Dayne Jepsen: silver (male tournament).

Morinville

Basketball – Brooke Froment: gold (female tournament).

Sturgeon County

Football – Connor Guy: bronze.

Lacrosse – Joshua McRae: bronze.

Soccer – Tanner Dumonceaux: silver (male tournament); Kelli Haffie: bronze (female tournament).

Visit www.2014AirdrieGames.ca for complete results.

A win Thursday by the St. Albert Impact premier men would strengthen their first-place standing in the Edmonton District Soccer Association.

Kickoff is 8:30 p.m. against Sherwood Park Karpaty at Riel Recreation Park.

The Impact are the league leaders in wins with 10 and points with 34 in 15 matches.

AC Milan is second in the premier table with 29 points in 14 matches, followed by Juventus Scona with 28 points in 15 matches and AS Roma with 27 points in 14 matches.

The Impact are winners of four in a row and are unbeaten in 13 since their only loss of the season, 3-0 to Juventus Scona on May 1.

Bruno Zebie and Haris Kevac are the Impact’s top scorers with six goals apiece.

The Impact close out league play against AS Roma on Aug. 7 and AC Milan on Aug. 14. Kickoff times are 7 p.m. at the ESA Complex.

The best-of-five senior B provincial final between the St. Albert Miners and Calgary Mountaineers in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League is on tap this weekend at Go Auto Arena.

Dates and times were unavailable at press time from the RMLL and the Miners, but game one is expected to be played at night, followed the next day with an afternoon contest.

Next weekend the series shifts to the Stu Peppard Arena in Calgary for games three and four. If a fifth and deciding game is needed it will take place Aug. 10 in St. Albert.

The winner advances to the Presidents’ Cup national championship, Aug. 25 to 29 in Coquitlam, B.C.

Visit www.rockymountainlax.com for playoff updates.

The Miners are gunning for their first provincial championship since back-to-back titles in 2010 and 2011.

The Miners are 19-0 this season after sweeping the Edmonton Outlaws in the best-of-five semifinals.

The Mountaineers, last year’s provincial champions and fourth-place finishers at nationals, are 11-7-2 after eliminating the Rockyview Knights of Airdrie in game four game of the semifinals.

In league play the Miners beat the Mountaineers 13-7 in Calgary and 8-4 in St. Albert.

Last year the Mountaineers advanced to the final after knocking off the Miners in four games in the semifinal series.

The deadline to register online for the 25th annual St. Albert Triathlon is Monday.

Visit www.starrt.com to enter the sprint distance (750-metre swim, 20K bike and 5K run), try-a-tri (250m swim, 10K bike and 2.5K run) or relay team event.

So far 278 competitors are confirmed for the Aug. 10 competition. Start time is 7 a.m. at Fountain Park Recreation Centre.

Last year’s sprint distance winner was Matt Dean in one hour and 15 seconds and the fastest female was Alexandra Gordichuk of Edmonton at 1:06:44 for sixth place overall.

In total there were 198 finishers (85 males and 113 females) in the sprint distance, 38 in the try a tri and nine sprint teams also went the distance.

The St. Albert Road Runners and Triathlon Club hosts the Triathlon Alberta-sanctioned race.