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Sabres soccer performs well at zones

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The St. Anthony’s senior girls Soccer team competed at the South Central Zone Championships over the weekend hosted by Hugh Sutherland High School in Carstairs.

There were 8 teams competing at Zones with St. Anthony’s being the only 1A school. All other schools were 3A level, over 300 students in high school population.

Teams were placed in two pools of 4 playing in a round robin format.

In St. Anthony’s first game on Friday, October 2, they lost 8-0 to a very tough Springbank team then had to play a back to back game losing a very tight match to Hugh Sutherland/Olds Koinonia Christian School 3-0.

In the Sabres final round robin game they lost 5-0 to Canmore.

On Saturday, the Sabres regrouped and put forward their best game of the season beating Strathmore 3-0 to finish in 7th place.

“This win showed remarkable improvement as the Sabres had previously been defeated by a score of 4-1 by Strathmore at the 6th Annual Sr. Sabres Invitational Tournament,” said coach Gavin Makse.

“All team members showed great improvement.”

The Sabres will be wrapping up the season in the next two weeks with a few exhibition games.

Terrapins take first home win

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Saturday’s cold, windy rainy weather didn’t stop the Tim Hortons Peewee Terrapins from showing the Rocky Mountain House Rebels what Football in Drumheller is all about.

The Terrapins hosted the Rebels Saturday (October 3) morning in their mid-season home opener and went home with a 39-6 win.

“It was an amazing game,” Coach Thomas Laffin said.

He said in the first half of the game everything fell together and the team was, “all pumped up and super excited.”

This was the first win of the season for the Peewee team.

“It was a great game. The offense was on fire the rocky game was just amazing. These guys were breaking tackles left, right and centre. They were excited and they played a great game,” he told The Mail.

Coach Laffin said it has taken a bit to get all the players in the right spot, pumped up and ready to go.

“It looks like it is going to be a good end to the season,” he said.

“I had a bucket of water poured over me at the end (of the game). The players get a kick out of it. Win or lose if we play a good game then they have all the rights to do it,” Laffin said.

The Terrapins will now host Innisfail on Saturday, October 10 at DVSS field. Kickoff time is 10 a.m.

Dragons take loss against Wolverines at AJHL Showcase Thursday

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The Drumheller Dragons were in action Thursday afternoon at the annual Alberta Junior ‘A’ Hockey League (AJHL) Showcase in Camrose against the Whitecourt Wolverines.
The Wolverines opened up the scoring at 5:45 of the first period but the Dragons answered back with a shorthanded goal by Ryan Chynoweth at 8:55 to tie the game.
At 17:09 Levi Wunder scored an unassisted goal to give the Dragons a 2-1 lead. The second period saw a third goal by the Dragons on the power play, Chynoweth’s second of the night, but the Wolverines came back with four unanswered goals to lead the game 5-3 by the end of the second.
The Dragons Chynoweth scored his hat trick goal on the power play at 2:30 of the third period and less than two minutes later the Dragons Wade Wylie tied the game at five each. The Wolverines scored their sixth goal at 14:51 to win the game 6-5
The Dragons now face the Grande Prairie Storm in their second game of the AJHL Showcase on Saturday afternoon at 4:30 p.m. On Friday October 9 the Dragons will head the Fort McMurray to face the Oil Barons at 8 p.m. before heading to Bonnyville to face the Pontiacs on Saturday at 7:30.

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