Indoor Games results
The 40th annual Running Room Indoor Games was fast and furious for St. Albert’s top finishers in the finals last Saturday at the Butterdome.The Paul Kane Blues pulled off the first ever victory by the women’s team in the high school 8x200 metre relay as Chloe Poole, Ella Broeksma, Alyson Katerenchuk, Vail Ketsa, Hanna Boyce, Freya Feely, Madyson Wing and Riley Andruchow finished with a time of 3:50.69.
The Ross Sheppard Thunderbirds placed second at 3:52.23 and the Harry Ainlay Titans were third at 3:52.48.
In the men’s high school 8x200m relay, Paul Kane was fourth at 3:24.74.
The Lorne Akins Gators turned in the second-fastest time for junior high males in the 8x200m relay in meet history at 3:25.8 in the semifinals and the team’s winning time in the final was 3:31.02.
The record is 3:24.23 by Riverbend in 2014.
Riverbend was also the runner-up at 3:36.98.
Afrosyob Gulam-Jillany, Jacob King, Elliot MacLennan, Jaxon Gates, Hudson Ketsa, Linden Grasdal, Aidan Purdon and Caleb Akerley of the Gators were gunning for the event record in the semifinal with one of the runners not available for the final as Nathan Olsen filled in for Gates.
The female Gators wound up third in the junior high 8x200m relay at 3:57.08 and Riverbend was the winner at 3:53.77.
The Gators set the event record of 3:44.6 in 2013.
Sir Alexander Mackenzie led the way in the female elementary 8x200m relay at 4:14.98 to beat out Elizabeth Finch at 4:15.77.
In the male elementary 8x200m relay, Muriel Martin was the winner at 4:06.64 and Neil M Ross was the runner-up at 4:11.88.
The female high school 200m featured a fourth-place result by Rachel Kaine of the Bellerose Bulldogs at 27.04.
Senior B’s ring it
“Play Smarter Not Harder” was the championship motto of the St. Albert Senior B’s at the open B ringette provincials last weekend in Calgary.The second-year team, ranging in age from 27 to 38, as the so-called old girls' team in the St. Albert Ringette Association, pulled off the 2-1 overtime victory against the Calgary Blaze in the final.
Visit www.stalbertgazette.com to view the team’s championship banner picture.
Brandy Hanson’s second goal of the final was potted with 6.7 seconds remaining in the second five-minute extra period.
Running with a short bench and mental and physical fatigue setting in, the Senior B’s grabbed possession of the ring with 10 seconds to go and Sarah Stengel fired a shot from the circle and the rebound bounced out perfectly to the low post where Hanson was stationed to bury the gold-medal winning shot before the buzzer.
If the final was still deadlocked after the second OT, a five-person shootout would have determined the outcome.
In the second period, Hanson opened the scoring with 8:20 to play and Kerry Boake of the Blaze tied it with 62 seconds left in regulation time.
Stellar netminder Amy MacLean kept the gritty Senior B’s in the game.
The Senior B's roster of 15 players included two new additions this year but only 12 players, all original team members, were available for provincials and in the semifinal, 4-3 over FSU of Calgary, the team lost a player to injury.
Stengel racked up all four goals against FSU, the eventual bronze medallist, and MacLean was rock solid.
In pool A of the eight-team tournament, the Senior B’s lost 7-3 to the North Shore Fury of Edmonton before running the table with 5-4 decisions against the Calgary Edge and Blaze and the winning ways continued in the playoffs with a combination of strong defence and capitalizing when the opportunities arose.
The Senior B’s entered the playoffs ranked third in the Northern Alberta Women’s Ringette Association after 2-1-1 playoff record following a fifth-place finish in the regular season while going 18-9-2.
Brezovski tees it up
Brooke Brezovski worked off the winter rust at the Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour’s 20th anniversary season opener last weekend.Brezovski, 14, finished 13th in the U15 female division at the Humber College PGM Classic as the Sturgeon Valley Golf & Country Club member shot rounds of 88, 85, 87 for a score of 260.
The winner by five strokes was Tina Jiang of Richmond at 231 (79-75-77).
The first two rounds were staged at the University Golf Club in Vancouver and the last round was played at the Vancouver Golf Club in Coquitlam, the site of the 2015 Canadian Pacific Women’s Open Championship.
Brezovski was the only Albertan and one of two non British Columbia golfers in the field 19.
Last year the Grade 9 Richard S. Fowler student carded her first MJT victory as the top U15 female by five strokes with scores of 78-77-81 (236) at the MJT-PGA of Alberta Junior Championship at the McKenzie Meadows Golf Course in Calgary.
The first CJGA Junior Alberta event of the year for Brezovski is also at McKenzie Meadows on April 28-29.
