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The last jewel in the triple crown of hockey was pure gold for the St. Albert Hit.

The road to the Canadian Ringette Championships wasn’t as smooth as last year’s journey for the zone 5 junior AA team.

The Dominion club northern playdowns are under way in Sherwood Park for St. Albert rinks skipped by Jamie King and Kathy Piper. King’s line-up of Craig King, Ralph Killips, Brian Pfeifer and spare Elson Keown are the five-time defending St.

The Muriel Martin Dinos led the way to a one-two-three-four finish by St. Albert schools in the elementary girls’ 8x200 metre relay at the 32nd annual Edmonton Journal Indoor Games last Saturday at the Butterdome. The winning time was 4:19.

“It was a little frustrating for me but I think I did enough the first two days and that helped me out to make the team again,” Feser told the Gazette Wednesday during a break at a Canada training session in Champaign, Ill.

Heading into her last year with the University of Connecticut Huskies, Jody Sydor is getting it done on and off the ice. Sydor is one of few pharmacy students at UConn to be a student athlete, largely because of how demanding the program is.

The Morinville Wolves gave it their best shot at the 3A provincial basketball championships at Medicine Hat. The boys finished fifth overall as the eighth seed in the 12-team draw.

The St. Albert SLAM bantam A girls capped off a perfect 17-0 season of basketball with a provincial championship.

The St. Albert Skyhawks are basking in the glow of being 3A provincial gold medallists.

The first year of the Alberta Major Bantam Female Hockey League for the St. Albert Raiders was better than expected. The Raiders finished first in the north and fourth overall in league play at 15-8-3.