Local Sports

Many NHL players are on the golf course, but the season hasn’t stopped for six talented young St. Albert hockey players. Michael Benning, Taige Harding, Ethan McKinley, Lleyton Moore, Carter Savoie and Austin Spiridakis, all products of St.

The pitch at Riel Park was a puddle for Tuesday’s game between the St. Albert Impact 1 men’s soccer team and the FC Edmonton Reserve.

Spouses and swimmers Richard and Catherine Roberts raced to new records and personal bests last month at the FINA world masters championships in Riccione, Italy.

The peewee AAA Cardinals are hoping for clear skies and booming bats tonight as they take the mound at Legion Memorial Park. The Red Birds take on SEEBA at 7 p.m. The bantam AAA Cardinals will take the field Thursday night, also at 7 p.m.

Locals at Olympic trials St. Albert’s two representatives at the Canadian track and field Olympic trials in Calgary on the weekend failed to make the team for the 2012 London games.

Local courses may have started the season in the rough, but the golf season is now in full swing. Rain, coupled with a cycle of freezing and thawing early in the year wreaked havoc on greens at some area golf courses this winter.

Six players from the St. Albert Minor Hockey Association made the Team Brick line-up for the 23rd annual Super Novice Invitational Hockey Tournament.

Playing third division men’s rugby in St. Albert is a now badge of honour instead of an act of futility.

Competing for Trinidad and Tobago was a major leap for St. Albert gymnast Marisa Dick. The 15-year-old was the first junior elite athlete to perform for the Caribbean country at the recent Pan American gymnastics championships in Colombia.

The St. Albert Women’s Soccer League is back on the pitch Monday after a break in the division one fixtures. The Storm (1-4) and Lady Titans (1-4) meet at 5 p.m. at Riel Park.