Former Drumheller resident Stacy Slater is still on tour with professional golfers. He has caddied for a number of years on the PGA circuit, the Web.com Tour and the Champions tour. Slater, right, was at the Shaw Charity Classic in Calgary caddying for Garry Hallberg, in the same threesome as John Daly. He is now headed to Pebble Beach, California for the Nature Valley First Tee Open, September 13-18, again caddying for Hallberg.
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The Drumheller Bantam Titans football team are back on the field for a new season.
Head coach Paul Redmond says the team is looking good and they are looking forward to this year’s campaign. Even though over 25 signed up, the team ended up with 19 players.
“It’s really too bad because it would have been nice to have more players,” said Redmond.
Coming from the Pee-Wee Drumheller Terrapins, most of the players have a few years of experience under their belt.
“This is good because they are already at square three instead of me having to start at square one with them,” said Redmond.
He adds they have leadership on the field as quarterback Ethan Jones is already in his fifth year.
Redmond added he is looking forward to working with all the players this year and feels their tailback is really strong.
“He is even bigger than me!” Redmond laughed, “I am not a small guy either!”
The Bantam Titan’s first game is a home game this season and is September 17 against Olds at 1:30 p.m. Before that, the Peewee Terrapins are on the field at 11 a.m. versus the RV Rage.
Girls softball players in the valley will have a chance this weekend to see what it takeS to continue their career at the college level.
The Drumheller Girls Softball Association has invited the University of Calgary Dynos and the SAIT Trojans to the valley this Saturday. The two teams will be playing a double header at Newcastle Diamonds.
Kent Jensen of the softball association and assistant coach of U14 Pure Venom says this is a great opportunity for the teams.
“One of our coaches is friends with the coach from SAIT, and they had the brainchild that it would be good for some of our girls to see what they could do if they stick with ball when they get to University,” said Jensen.
The games are in fact league games.
The valley has been booming with a resurgence of high quality softball. Last season Association had a U16 team, a U14 team, two U12 teams two U10 teams and two U8 teams. He says softball is a great team sport, and he feels the players appreciate being on all girls teams.
He says this is a great chance for the young players to not only see top shelf ball, but also meet some of the players. They are planning to make time available for local players to meet and interact with some of the college players.
The games are this Saturday, September 17 at Newcastle Diamonds with games at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
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