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Junior girls Saints win third at Three Hills tourney

    The St. Anthony’s Saints Jr. B Girls won third place at a Three Hills tournament on Saturday, January 12, 2013.
   The Saints came out in their first game with great defensive pressure early on and kept the game close against a talented Deer Meadow squad. However, the Saints could not get the offence going from the second quarter on and lost 31-8.
   In the second game of the six-team tourney, the Saints faced Bassano and found their scoring touch and fastbreak offence, cruising to a 34-16 victory. High scorers for the Saints were Hannah Reed with eight points, Rachel Graf with seven, and Courtney Till netted six.
   The win put the Saints into the third place game (finished in second place in their pool of three teams) against the Hanna Hawks.
   The Saints had just recently travelled to Hanna for league play on Thursday, January 10 and suffered a lopsided 33-13 loss to the Hawks. The Saints were up for redemption and used a patient offense lead by a game high 24 points from Rachel Graf to bring home the bronze defeating Hanna 46-27.
   Strong play by all players was crucial to getting the victory. Hannah Reed chipped in with 11 points and Rachel Ranger had six. The Saints next game is Thursday, January 17 when they travel with the Jr. Boys to Morrin for league play.

The Saints won third at a tournament in Three Hills last Saturday. They are (back; l-r) Ana Importa, Rachel Ranger, Rachel Graf, Kayla Finkbiner, Hannah Reed, and head coach Gavin Makse, with (Middle; l-r) Jerizza de Guzman, Sasha Wright, Sydney MacDonald, Kally Weeteringen, Kassidy Powell and(Front; l-r) Payton Zacharuk, Megan Boland and Emma Rowbottom. Missing are Karyna Ainscough and Courtney Till.

Dynos place 7th at home tourney

    The DVSS Dynos senior boys basketball team had a slow start to their home tournament, but were able to win their final game to end on a high note.
   The Dynos hosted the Battle in the Badlands last weekend and were hoping to repeat as champions, however this goal was dashed in the first round.
   The Dynos faced J.H. Picard of Edmonton. At half time, Picard had a 5-point lead. The Dynos were able to close it off, but lost by a single point, 63-62. Matt Herman and Bret Van Kannel both had big games with 16 points each and Talon Marshall had 12.
   This put the Dynos on the consolation side of the draw and up against J.R. Robson of Vermillion, which has a provincial honourable mention. This too was a close game, but the Dynos fell 71-64.
   This bumped the team to the 7th place round where they faced South Central. This time the Dynos flexed their muscles and dealt a convincing blow to the Oyen team, winning 101-34. Talon Marshall was the top scorer with 23.
   J.H Picard, the team that beat the Dynos out advanced to the Saturday night finals to play Holy Cross Collegiate of Strathmore. The Strathmore team won the tournament 61-58.

Dynos point guard Cienna Sands gets ready to put the moves on one of the Three Hills Royals.

Dynos to defend home tournament championship

    The DVSS senior boys Dynos basketball will be in action this weekend as they hope to defend their hometown tournament championship.
   The 2013 Battle in the Badlands is this January 11 and 12 and features eight top teams in the province in the Oregon style draw.
   “It should be really tough tournament for us to repeat as champions as there are a lot of good quality teams participating,” said Dynos head coach Jeff Messom.
   Teams include Acme, who is ranked at the top of the 1A teams in Alberta. J.R. Robson and Rimby have both achieved honourable mentions in the first round of 2A rankings, Holy Cross Colligate is ranked 9 and Millwoods Christian is ranked seventh.
   Because of this, there could be some changes in the next set of rankings as DVSS also has a honourable mention.
   Action for the Dynos begins at 2:30 on Friday afternoon as they take on J.H. Picard. If they are successful, they will play at 11:45 Saturday morning. If they move on, the championship is at 7:30 Saturday evening.

The Dynos will be working off the Christmas turkey at their home tournament this coming weekend. They will be on the court on Friday at 2:30 p.m. the championship is Saturday night at 7:30 p.m.

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