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It's shaping up to be a summer to celebrate for Arinn Young. The Team Canada wheelchair basketball player from Legal will celebrate her 19th birthday in Beijing at the second annual U25 world championship before hooping it up at the Parapan American Games in Toronto.

The St. Albert Tigers will show their stripes against the senior AAA provincial champions in the Sunburst Baseball League. The Tigers (7-6) host the Red Deer Riggers (6-4) Friday and July 3 at Legion Memorial Park. Game times are 7:30 p.m.

The Labatt’s Cup provincial champions will have to wait until the Oct. 2 premier men’s rugby final to beat the Calgary Irish this year.

Greg Parks, a former St. Albert Saints’ forward who served as head coach, general manager and part-owner of the St. Albert Steel before the Alberta Junior Hockey League team relocated to Whitecourt, died Tuesday in his hometown of Edmonton.

Special Olympics St. Albert is like a second family for Sydney Verkerk. “It’s pretty cool,” said the organization’s athlete of the month. “The environment is safe and I feel really comfortable.

St. Albert's premier and third division men's rugby teams are rucking and mauling today. At 12:30 p.m., the thirds scrum down against the Grande Prairie Centaurs at Ellerslie Rugby Park. At 4 p.m., the first 15 host the Calgary Irish at the St. Albert Rugby Football Club. The thirds (4-2, six BP), winners of two in a row, are ranked first in the Edmonton Rugby Union table and the Centaurs (3-3, four BP) are six points back in sixth place.

Sandra Fisher was crowned the Edmonton Golf Association senior ladies’ champion on her home course Tuesday. The winner of an unprecedented 21 Sturgeon Valley ladies’ club titles carded scores of 77 and 73 during the two-day tournament.

Jackson Wark is in exclusive company as the 22nd Canadian selected in the 2015 Major League Baseball first-year player draft. The New York Mets picked the six-foot-six, 220-pound right-hander from the midget AAA St.

The fantastic firsts grinded out their lowest-scoring victory of the season with a blue-collar performance against the Nor'Westers on a wet and windy Saturday afternoon. “We had lots of great effort from the forwards and backs.

The St. Albert Tigers doubled their win total in the Sunburst Baseball League last weekend while going 3-1 in tournament action at Legion Memorial Park.