Tigers tournament
As of 11:30 a.m. Friday, the Tigers Baseball Association tournament was good to go at Legion Memorial Park.
The St. Albert Minor Baseball Association grounds crew were hard at work Friday morning to make the Landrex and Active Physioworks diamonds playable for the 16-game schedule after the heavy downpour of rain this week.
The tournament consists of the nine teams in three pools.
Pool A: senior AAA St. Albert Tigers (Sunburst Baseball League), Calgary Longhorns, 18U AAA St. Albert Cardinals (2018 Tier I provincial champions).
Pool B: junior AAA St. Albert Cardinals, senior AAA Sherwood Park A’s (Sunburst provincial champions), senior AAA Red Deer Riggers (Sunburst).
Pool C: senior AA Sherwood Park A’s (North Central Alberta Baseball League), Calgary Wolfpack, senior AAA Confederation Park Cubs (Sunburst)
The winner of each pool qualifies for Sunday’s championship bracket.
The scores from the three games Friday night were unavailable at press time.
The rest of the games are as follows.
Saturday
12 p.m. Cubs vs. Wolfpack, Physioworks.
1 p.m. Riggers vs. junior Cardinals, Landrex.
3 p.m. 18U Cardinals vs. Longhorns, Physioworks.
4 p.m. Sunburst A’s vs. Riggers, 4 p.m. Landrex.
6 p.m. Wolfpack vs. NCABL A’s, Physioworks.
8 p.m. Tigers vs. 18U Cardinals, Landrex.
Sunday
9 a.m. 9th vs. 8th, Physioworks.
10 a.m. 1st pool A vs. 1st pool B, Landrex.
12 p.m. 7th place vs. 6th place, Physioworks.
1 p.m. 1st pool B vs. 1st pool A, Landrex.
3 p.m. 5th place vs. 4th place, Physioworks.
4 p.m. 1st pool C vs. 1st pool A, Landrex.
7 p.m. final, Landrex.
Tournament updates are available at @StATigers.
Junior golf updates
Brooke Brezovski of St. Albert will tee it up with Team Alberta at the Western Canada Summer Games.
Brezovski, who golfs out of the Glendale, was selected for the Aug. 9 to 18 competition at Swift Current.
Joining the Grade 10 St. Albert Catholic High School student on the provincial team is Jenna Bruggeman and Kaitlyn Wingnean of Edmonton and Grace Bell and Brooke Frerichs of Calgary.
Last weekend Brezovski and her sister, Belle, finished second in their respective divisions at the Canadian Junior Golf Association’s US Kid’s Teen World Championship Qualifier West for ages 13 to 18 at Mackenzie Meadows Golf Club in Calgary.
In the U19 division, Brooke shot rounds of 76 and 79 for a two-day total of 155.
The winner was Stephanie Chelack of Calgary at 149 (77-72).
Belle finished with a score of 168 (84-84) in the U15 division behind Jayla Kucy of Camrose at 152 (73-79).
Also competing were U19 junior boys’ Evan Matty and Talin Thera of the Sturgeon Valley Golf & Country Club. Matty placed 13th at 158 (73-85) and Thera tied for 14th at 161 (83-78)
Nicholas-Guy Landry of Calgary was the top junior at 142 (72-70).
Brick tournament
This year’s Team Brick Alberta roster includes two St. Albert players.
Ossie McIntyre and Jaxon Pisani of the 2018/19 atom AA Crusaders were selected to the 17-player roster for the 30th annual Brick Invitational Hockey Tournament, July 1 to 7 at West Edmonton Mall Ice Palace.
Tryouts were held in March with more than 240 invited nine- and 10-year-olds across the province participating and the selection committee consisted of independent hockey evaluators, including professional coaches, scouts and other qualified hockey personnel.
Team Brick Alberta is an elite hockey prospect development program run by hockey coaches and professionals.
