Local Sports

Pride was on the line for the St. Albert U16 softball team to medal at the Western Canadian Championship in Winnipeg. The fourth-place finishers at provincials finished 5-3 as bronze medallists in the eight-team tournament.

Ellerslie Rugby Park – Losing by 71 points to the first-place U19 team in the last match before the playoffs was a wakeup call for the 2012 Edmonton Rugby Union finalists from St. Albert.

The division one St. Albert Impact teams in the Edmonton District Soccer Association wrap up league play this week before the crossover playdowns kick off Aug. 13. Wednesday the 1B Impact squad tackles the Scona Blues at 7 p.m.

The St. Albert Senior Cardinals achieved their goal of playing in Monday’s finals at the Canadian National Oldtimers Baseball Championships.

The bantam AAA St. Albert Cardinals finished the Tier I provincials with one win in four games last weekend in Okotoks. The five-team draw started with a 6-5 loss to the Sherwood Park A’s.

Telus Field – Like a fine wine, the St. Albert Tigers are better with age. Their 2013 brand of vintage baseball was the gold-medal winning Capital Tiger Padres at the Canadian national oldtimers championships.

The first trip by the St. Albert-based NAMLC Crude to the junior B Tier I provincial lacrosse final ended with a three-game sweep by the Calgary Mountaineers.

The meteoric rise of provincial and western midget gold medallist Jakob Brinkhof started May 7 when he picked up a javelin. “The first time I ever did it the javelin landed tail first in the ground 14 metres away,” recalled the St.

The playoffs start Monday for the St. Albert Tigers in the Sunburst Baseball League. Game one in the best-of-three semifinal against the two-time defending provincial champion Fort Saskatchewan A’s starts at 6 p.m. in the Fort.

The Canadian National Oldtimers Baseball Championships are underway in the metro Edmonton area for 31 teams in the 35-plus, 44-plus and 50-plus divisions. Venue diamonds are Legion Memorial Park in St.