The main event this weekend at Servus Credit Union Place is the women’s wheelchair basketball tournament hosted by the Edmonton Inferno.
In the round-robin draw the six-time reigning Canadian women’s league champions play Calgary, Saskatoon and a B team assembled by the Inferno.
Today’s tip-off times for the Inferno are 9 a.m. against Calgary on court A and 2:15 p.m. against Saskatoon on court B. Sunday’s tilt against the B team starts at 8:30 a.m. on court A. The finals are 11 a.m. on both courts.
The St. Albert connection with the Inferno from the 2008 Canadian Paralympic team is post Tara Feser and veteran guard Jen Krempien. Feser is coming off her second-straight NCAA championship with the University of Alabama Crimson Tide. She is also the national team’s co-captain for the Gold Cup world championship, July 5 to 17 in Birmingham, England. Canada is the four-time defending champion. Krempien retired from the national team after the 2008 Paralympics. The three-time Paralympic gold medallist, four-time world champion and 2007/08 Canadian Wheelchair Basketball Association female athlete of the year was inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 2009.
The second St. Albert Steel player to commit to Fredonia State University is Alex Perkins.
The 21-year-old left-winger joins Steel captain and defenceman Ryan Edens as a member of the Blue Devils for the 2010/11 season. The liberal arts college, based in western New York, plays NCAA division three hockey in the American collegiate association.
Perkins completed his third and final Alberta Junior Hockey League campaign with the Steel as the team’s fourth highest point producer with 40, on 16 goals and 24 assists during an injury-plagued and suspension-riddled 46 games. In 166 career games, the St. Albert minor hockey product recorded 41 goals, 49 assists and 477 penalty minutes. The Steel’s assistant captain is also a two-time winner of the team’s coaches’ award.
Nick Ternovatsky of St. Albert is one of four Alberta Golden Bears named to the west team’s roster for the annual CIS East-West Bowl on May 8 in London, Ont.
The six-foot-one and 280-pound offensive lineman is entering his fourth season with the Bears after playing junior with the Edmonton Wildcats and was the centre for the 2006 prairie conference champion and Canadian Junior Bowl finalists. In 2007 the high school product of the St. Albert High Skyhawks was voted to the prairie conference all-star team at centre. He also has experience at guard and tackle.
The East-West Bowl showcases, for the most part, CIS players eligible for the 2011 CFL draft.
