The St. Albert Skyhawks kicked it up a notch in the metro Edmonton co-ed indoor soccer league after losing last year's final.
The 10th win in 11 games without a loss for the Skyhawks was last week's 2-1 decision over the Salisbury Sabres for the division two championship.
Last year the Skyhawks (7-3-2, 47 GF/36 GA) were the division two finalists.
This year the final was knotted at one late in the second half when Connor Dumonceaux took a rebound off the back wall and fired it into the far side of the net for the game winner.
Lucas Palladino also scored and goalkeeper Koen Klinge was outstanding while pulling off several difficult saves.
The Skyhawks finished 10-0-1 (56 GF/19 GA) as the top division two team in the regular season and Salisbury (9-2, 66 GF/30 GA overall) was ranked second in the nine-team table.
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The co-ed soccer league consists of five players and goalkeeper on the field per team and two of the players must be on the field at all times, including shorthanded situations.
The majority of the Skyhawks will play outdoors for the St. Albert Catholic High School women's and men's teams.
Ryder Horton of the St. Albert Mustangs Track & Field Club turned in the fastest time in the country this year in the U18 men's 600 metres at the Alberta indoor age class championships.
Horton's winning performance was 1:22.09.
The Ardrossan athlete also placed third in the 300m at 36.01.
Also achieving podium finishes were the following Mustangs:
Matthew Harrison, midget men: first in 60m hurdles (9.26)
Madelyn Curle, U20 women: first in high jump (1.60m).
Jacob Wessel, midget men: third in high jump (1.55m)
Results for the junior development team Mustangs are as follows:
Karrisa De Sousa, tyke girls: second in 400m (1:24.81) and long jump (2.84m); third in standing long jump (1.55m).
Christina Hollingworth, peewee girls: first in shot put (8.10m)
Grace Kowalyk, peewee girls: first in high jump (1.15m)
Ryan Lofstrom, peewee boys: second in 600m (1:59.66); third in 150m (23.24) and 60m (9.62m).
The midget AA St. Albert Cardinals Red was the top team at the recent Weimar Wildcat Varsity Invitational Tournament in Texas.
The Cardinals beat Smithsville 9-3, the host Wildcats 13-4 and in the final scored the winning run in the bottom of the sixth to edge Tidehaven 3-2 in an intense affair.
Winning pitchers were Mitch King, Eric Pankiw and in the final Tanner McLean-Poll.
The tournament consisted of seven teams from across Texas and the Cardinals.
Weimer is located between Houston and San Antonio.
Eleven players from the 2016 Baseball Alberta Tier I champions and U18 western gold medallists practiced all winter in preparation for the tournament.
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