Local Sports

Ninety athletes from St. Albert and area are competing for Zone 5 Black Gold/Yellowhead at the Alberta Summer Games this weekend in Lethbridge.

Calgary Rugby Park – There are three things in life you can count on: Death, taxes and the Calgary Hornets beating St. Albert in premier men's rugby. The fifth win in a row by the Hornets against St.

The host team for the Peewee Community Tier 1 Provincial Championship finished second overall last weekend at Legion Memorial Park. In Sunday’s final the Cardinals lost 8-6 to South Jasper Place after going 3-0 in the six-team tournament.

The 18th annual Tour de l’Alberta is set to take off Sunday from the Ray McDonald Sports Centre in Morinville. This year more than 1,100 participants are registered to pedal in the Edmonton Bicycle and Touring Club’s signature ride.

Knobloch tourney The second annual Dieter Knobloch Memorial Adult Tournament is taking place this weekend at the St. Albert Soccer Association (SASA) grounds in Riel Park.

The Olympics aren’t the only games of interest to St. Albertans this summer. The Alberta Summer Games are right around the corner. This year Lethbridge will host the bi-annual sporting event for Alberta youth ages 11 to 17, July 26-29.

Ty Lindeman of St. Albert is hoping to net some more medals for his collection at the 2012 Pan Am junior badminton championships being held in Sherwood Park July 22-29.

When Kip Petch went to the 1976 Montreal Olympics as an athletic therapy student, he never dreamed it would be the start of an Olympic run spanning more than 35 years.

After two matches this season in which the scores between St. Albert and the Druids have never been separated by more than three points, St. Albert’s first 15 stepped up with a dominating 47-12 win on home field Saturday.

Three local hockey players will head to China later this month to compete in the first AAA International Shanghai Hockey Tournament. Brady Harroun, Jackson Moffat and Austin Spiridakis of St.