Local Sports

St. Albert’s scrum queens booked a home-field playoff date in their last match before the post-season party kicks off in the Edmonton Rugby Union.

The only team to go undefeated in pool play at the U15 Baseball Canada championship ended the season with two playoff losses. “We ran into a couple of hot teams on Sunday,” said Sean Erickson, head coach of the fourth-place St.

The St. Albert Merchants will have a new bench boss when their main camp opens Sunday. Scott Rodda has stepped aside for Jake Behiels to take over the Capital Junior B Hockey League team. Behiels, a graduate of the Merchants and the St.

Canada’s dairy farmers are supporting girls and women serious about sports across the country with the Fuelling Women Champions initiative and its new grant program.

The waiting game is over for Arinn Young. The excellent adventure on the road to Rio for the Team Canada wheelchair basketball player from Legal got rolling with Monday’s departure to the 15th Summer Paralympic Games.

This week marks the last home dates before the Sept. 17 semifinals for the division one women and premier division men at the St. Albert Rugby Football Club.

The last game before the playoffs for the host St. Albert Miners at the Presidents’ Cup senior B lacrosse championship is against the Brooklin (Ont.) Merchants tonight at Leduc Recreation Centre. Ball drop is 7:30 p.m.

Week two in the Capital District Minor Football Association pre-season kicks off Sunday for St. Albert’s peewee and bantam teams. The doubleheader at Riel Recreation Park starts at 10 a.m.

The Presidents’ Cup senior B lacrosse nationals, hosted by the St. Albert Miners, starts Sunday night at Leduc Recreation Centre.

The St. Albert Cardinals got off to a flying start on the opening day of the U15 Baseball Canada championship at Summerside, P.E.I. The Baseball Alberta bantam AAA Tier I champions edged Newfoundland 3-2 and out-scored Nova Scotia 9-6 Thursday.