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Neighbors, August 23, 1 992 1 5 St. Albert ready for Canada's best tact Bill Russel at 458-2476. "We're hoping to get some television coverage of the event as well but so far the stations we've contacted aren't making any commitments," says Chalifoux. She says there will be a supper event every night of the tournament, beginning Aug. 27 with a spaghetti dinner sponsored by Catelli.

The tournament banquet will be held Aug. 28 and it's beef on a bun on Aug. 29. On Sunday, St Albert Minor Baseball will host a barbecue. Play gets under way Aug.

27 beginning at 9 am. Games will then run every three hours at both the Legion Park senior diamond and the Legion Park bantam diamond. In the event of rain, games will be made up on Monday, Aug. 31. should take care of the immediate needs," she says.

"Of course, we will eventually have to rebuild the old facility and we'll have to budget for that" Taking part in the tournament are six teams including the host St Albert Bantams. Representing the Atlantic region is the Bedford Blues from just outside Halifax. Brassard will be the team representing Quebec, while a team from Brampton represents Ontario. Abbotsford will represent British Columbia. The Prairies representative will not be known until Aug.

24 because western regionals are being held this weekend. Chalifoux says almost everything is in place for the tournament, although some billets for players are still needed. Anyone wishing to become a billet for four days should con By JOHN MATHER Neighbors Sports Reporter The best Bantam baseball players in Canada converge on St Albert this weekend for the national championships. "We're really excited and looking forward to this," says Marg Chalifoux, tournament organizer for St Albert. The St Albert Minor Baseball Association is spending close to $30,000 to put on this four-day tournament.

Plans suffered a setback recently when arsonists torched the association's permanent concession facility at Legion Park, where the tournament takes place. But Chalifoux says this problem has been overcome. "We have a large mobile concession coming in and that Gridiron earlybird tourney set for September ft. Putting the ball in Oggie Netherdol of the B.C. Provincial cricket team puts the ball in play during the Western Canadian Cricket championship at Victoria Park recently.

B.C. defeated the Alberta A team in the final game. is guaranteed four games of 30-minute duration. "It's basically a warm-up tournament," says Jereniuk. "The final score is not the important thing as much as making sure the players are learning their positions." The rules of the tournament have the home teams starting on offense at their own 35-yard line.

After that, says Jereniuk, they have three downs to make e.v By JOHN MATHER Neighbors Sports Reporter The biggest one day football tournament will be held at M.E. LaZerte High School on Sept. 5. A total of 18 teams from Edmonton, Central and Northern Alberta will take part in the one day tournament, says LaZerte Voyageur head coach Bo Jereniuk. Each team in the tournament I 77 n-" 5 la 1 it the field.

On the third down, the team may either gamble or move the ball up 35 yards and turn it over. Jereniuk says teams must gamble once they get inside the 35-yard line of the opposing team. "One of the unique things about this tournament is that we allow the coaches on to the fields to assist their players whether it is the defensive or offensive team." i I Si i 1 Peter TaylorNeighbors I Peter TaylorNeighbors play GF GA PT 44 21 21 25 '4 18 30 23 17 28 25 16 27 19 15 22 31 11 1 28 43 1 10 36 GF GA PT 1 44 17 23 1 44 17 25 3 22 21 1 27 24 18 29 11 26 41 27 44 14 31 10 3 37 22 19 1 31 28 17 6 24 18 16 Lots of prizes will be given away at each game. KNOTH 0r j-UW UOtKWVi SOCCER SOCCER Concordia Hasten Soccer League IDS A standings to Aug. 13 standings to Aug 1 4 Premier Division Team GP GF GA PT Team GP Croatia 12 10 0 2 45 19 20 Polonia 14 9 2 Conc'a O'Timer 12 7 1 4 30 22 15 Strikers 14 8 4 Portugal 12 7 1 4 36 23 15 Sher.Pk.

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14 12 1 Aug 12 Roots 1 12 1 Team GP GF GA PT SW Kickers 14 5 6 AaxSG 14 6 7 Edmltals 17 14 2 1 41 12 29 Trojans 14 4 7 Edm Victoria 17 9 3 5 33 20 23 Red Star 14 5 9 Cat. Dinosaurs 17 9 4 4 46 18 22 Polonia Res. 14 4 8 Edm. Scottish 17 7 4 6 34 18 20 Allemania 14 2 9 Cal. Foothills 16 8 6 2 33 19 18 Division 2 (men) EdmJuventu.

17 7 7 3 31 34 17 Gp Cal. Eagles 17 6 7 4 38 29 16 Cal. Chinooks 16 6 7 3 28 23 15 Stars 14 8 3 Edm. Croatia 17 2 14 1 9 70 5 T. Reserves 14 8 5 Lethbridge 15 0 14 1 8 58 1 VSC Storm 14 5 3 Are you in the winner's circle? Congratulations! If you are circled in this photograph taken during the Aug.

6 game between the Eskimos and the Ottawa Roughriders, you have just won a Neighbors T-Shirt and fanny pack. Winners must pick up prizes from the Neighbors office in The Journal building downtown. Each week. Neighbors will run a picture of members of Woodward's Knothole Gang at Eskimo home games. Woodward's Knothole Gang Is for boys girls between the ages of 6 14 years.

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