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A hockey stick relay will culminate with the opening face-off for the Rogers Hometown Hockey Tour stop in St. Albert. The relay, featuring a specially made red hockey stick for the event, will start at Akinsdale Arena and end at St.

Sydney De La Mare of the St. Albert Rugby Football Club is among 24 athletes selected to play for Canada’s U18 women’s team during a tour of England in April.

The season ended earlier than expected for the St. Albert Gregg Distributors Sabres in the Alberta Major Bantam Hockey League.

The St. Albert Skyhawks are 9-1 in league play and 21-6 overall in high school women’s basketball, when they play the host Ross Sheppard Thunderbirds today at 5 p.m.

Tamara Oudenaarden of St. Albert announced her retirement from long track speedskating last week. Oudenaarden, 28, decided to hang up her skates after devoting 21 years to the sport, starting at age seven with the Edmonton Speed Skating Club.

Marc Kennedy slides into his seventh Tim Hortons Brier after a brush with adversity at provincials. The Kevin Koe rink, with the St.

St. Albert rinks skipped by Glen Hansen, Deb Santos and Teri Tralnberg sweep into action today at the senior (50-plus) provincial championships at the Coaldale Granite Curling Club.

The St. Albert Merchants are on the brink of another early playoff elimination in the Capital Junior B Hockey League.

The playoff series between the St. Albert Gregg Distributors Sabres and SSAC Southgate Lions is underway in the Alberta Major Bantam Hockey League. Tuesday’s score from game one in St. Albert was unavailable at press time.

An analysis of the brain of former National Hockey League enforcer Todd Ewen of St. Albert showed no signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the Canadian Concussion Centre announced Tuesday.