Local Sports

The St. Albert Tigers AAA baseball club will host the 32nd Annual Tigers’ Tournament this weekend.

St. Albert Impact midfielder Bruno Zebie, 19, has moved on up to the big leagues after signing a week-to-week contract with FC Edmonton in the North American Soccer League.

Friday afternoon St. Albert played host to the Canadian women’s rugby team for a practice before they went on to their last game of the Women’s Super Series tournament.

A local martial artist has proven he’s one of the best in the world after bringing home several gold medals from an international tournament in Italy last month.

The Bantam AAA Cardinals pulled off their first victory in six games against the Edmonton Cardinals on Canada Day. The St. Albert red birds, with home field advantage, won a blow-out game of 9-0 against a struggling Edmonton team.

The Impact came out strong against an understaffed Juventus club to put another win on their record Thursday night. The St. Albert Premiere Impact 1 men’s team hosted the Juventus soccer club at Riel Park and walked away with a 1-0 win.

It’s a long trip to St. Albert from Winnipeg, and the Junior B Tier 1 Crude hope to send their opponents home empty handed. The second of two games between the local Crude and the Manitoba Blizzard will take place at 12:30 p.m.

St. Albert’s Senior AAA Tigers will host the Red Deer Riggers at the Legion Memorial ballpark July 3. The Tigers, who have a 7-7 record so far in this season’s Sunburst Baseball League action, will look to get back above the .500 mark.

With all the news of what the Edmonton Oilers have gained, many may have missed what is being lost – a local player is leaving the province. St.

Saturday morning St. Albert native Matteo Gennaro was starting to feel nervous as he watched the NHL draft unfold on TV with his family. Round after round went by without his name being called.