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The playoff puck drops tonight for the St. Albert Raiders in the best-of-five north division semifinal against the Leduc Oil Kings in the Alberta Midget AAA Hockey League. Game time is 7:45 p.m. at Akinsdale Arena.

The playoff puck drops tonight for the St. Albert Raiders in the best-of-five north division semifinal against the Leduc Oil Kings in the Alberta Midget AAA Hockey League. Game time is 7:45 p.m. at Akinsdale Arena.

Game two is Saturday at Leduc at 8:30 p.m. Game three goes Monday at 8 p.m. at Akinsdale.

If needed, game four is March 3 at Leduc at 7:15 p.m. and game five is March 5 at Akinsdale at 7:30 p.m.

The Raiders and Lloydminster Bobcats finished tied for the north division pennant as the league leaders with 23-6-6 records. Leduc placed third at 16-11-8.

In league play the Raiders and Oil Kings played to a 5-5 draw at Leduc in the season opener in October and in November the Raiders dropped a 3-2 decision at St. Albert.

The Raiders are coming off an opening round bye. Leduc swept the sixth-place Southside Athletic Club (15-16-4) by scores of 4-3 and 5-1.

In league scoring, Raiders’ forward Troy Bourke of Onoway was the top goal getter with 27. Bourke (53 points in 34 games) also finished second overall to Stephane Legault (20-35-55 in 35 games) by two points for the scoring title.

Tied for the lowest goals-against average was the Raiders’ tandem of Liam Liston (16-3-3) and Brad Miller (7-3-3) at 2.23. The Raiders gave up a league low 80 goals, one less than the Bobcats.

St. Albert athletes with the Olympian Swim Club were made of medals at the Western Canadian Swimming Championships last weekend at Saskatoon. Podium finishes in the U15 youth and U16 senior individual events are as follows:

Gold medallists

Braeden Newton: senior boys’ 100 and 200 metre backstroke.

Natasha Fung: senior girls’ 400m freestyle.

Silver medallists

Fung: senior girls’ 50m and 100m freestyle.

Bruno Sharpe: senior boys’ 400 IM.

Bronze medallists

Sharpe: senior boys’ 800m freestyle.

Kristan Kushlyk: youth girls’ 50m and 200m breaststroke.

Fifth-year forward Tarin Podloski of the Alberta Pandas etched her name into CIS history Saturday.

The St. Albert resident and former Wetaskiwin product scored her second goal of the night against Manitoba, and her 213 career conference point, making her the CIS all-time scoring champion. The Pandas’ captain eclipsed the previous mark of 212 points held by Danielle Bourgeois, a Pandas’ alumna and current assistant coach.

Podloski, 23, entered the last weekend of conference play with 209 career points, but scored three goals and added one assist in a pair of wins over Manitoba to set the record. She has already played more games than Bourgeois (107) and is the CIS all-time leader in assists (122) while scoring 91 goals in her five-year varsity career.

A member of the U22 national team, Podloski helped Canada claim gold at the 2006 and 2007 European Air Canada Cup in Germany.

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