Local Sports

The St. Albert Cardinals host the Spruce Grove White Sox tonight in the Norwest Midget AAA Baseball League. The first pitch goes at 7 p.m. at Legion Memorial Park.

St. Albert's premier men's rugby team is not rushing to push the panic button despite an alarming start to the season.

The early season growing pains continue for the midget AAA Cardinals, this time with a 12-7 loss to the Sherwood Park Gold (3-0) on Wednesday.

The Paul Kane women’s rugby teams dreams of gold were put on hold Thursday with a 35-0 loss to an undefeated Bev Facey squad (3-0) in the metro Edmonton premier semifinals.

The first pitch has been thrown in the Sunburst Baseball league with the St. Albert Tigers Black falling 9-2 to the Fort Saskatchewan Athletics. The result was definitely not what the team had in mind, according to Tigers’ coach Kurtus Millar.

Two St. Albert natives will be packing their bags for Shenzhen, China this summer to represent Canada at the 2011 Universiade Games.

It might have been windy and raining but the Bellerose men’s rugby team found a way to win against Fort Saskatchewan, posting a 56-0 victory in the premier quarter-final.

League play continues for men’s rugby teams in St. Albert. The third division men (1-1) head to Riel Rugby park to take on the Edson Axmen (1-0), who are fresh off their first match of the season, which they won 36-15. Kickoff is at 2 p.m.

An 0-2 start is definitely not where the St. Albert seconds would like to find themselves, but that is the exact position they are in to start the season.

Barely two weeks removed from a blanket of snow that covered the turf at the St. Albert Minor Soccer Association grounds, hundreds of local soccer players made the trek to the Riel fields for the annual Victoria Day Classic. While St.