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The promise and youth that is the Central Alberta Buccaneers cost them in the end.The Bucs were eliminated in the Alberta Football League playoffs with a 23-8 loss to the Grande Prairie Drillers on Saturday in Grande Prairie.

Chandler McDowell saved his best for last this summer.The Red Deer Golf and Country Club member avenged a playoff loss to Landon Stellingwerff in the 2013 Albert Golf Bantam Championship to win it all this year at the Wintergreen Golf and Country Club in Bragg Creek on Thursday.

The Red Deer Razorbacks are heading back to the Parkland Baseball League final for the first time since 2011.

Red Deer is not generally thought of as a power when it comes to producing top football players.That’s more of a historical view. That perception is changing and in a hurry.At the forefront of this movement is Notre Dame Cougars graduate Joe McQuay. Some scouting sites had him ranked in the top 10 of all high school linemen in the country this year.

The Parkland Baseball League semifinal is heading to a third and final game and the Red Deer Razorbacks are not happy about it.With an opportunity to sweep the Rocky Mountain Red Dogs on Wednesday night, the Razorbacks looked lost on the field at Great Chief Park, dropping an 8-2 decision to tie the series at 1-1. Game 3 goes on Friday at Great Chief Park at 7 p.m.

The 2014 CFL season has seen more laundry from the referees than a Walton-sized family with a 20-year-old Maytag washer. The general mood is zero tolerance for every infraction in the new kinder and gentler CFL, but the net result is frustration for both fans and players.

The celebrating is done and the Red Deer TBS Rampage are focused on their next title.The junior B tier I club earned their first Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League and Alberta provincial crown on Aug. 3, and on Saturday they will be taking the redeye to Halifax for the Founders Cup, the Canadian Lacrosse Association junior B national championship.

For the second time this season, the Fort Saskatchewan Athletics have handed the Red Deer Riggers their first loss —only this time, it should stand up.

Jaxon Lynn is in the midst of a break out golf season that included a trip to the Canadian Junior Boys Championship in Niagra Falls, Ont., but he believes this is just the beginning.On Thursday, the Sylvan Lake golfer fired an opening round 4-over-76 at the Maple Leaf Junior Tour stop at Wolf Creek Golf Resort’s links course to sit in a tie for third in the division, four shots behind Red Deer’s Grant Numrich, 17. Chandler McLaren, 19, from Ponoka was second with a 75.

It took until the early minutes of Thursday morning, but the Red Deer Riggers completed their opening round sweep of the St. Albert Tigers with a 7-5 win in 12 innings.The win puts the Riggers into the best-of-five Sunburst Baseball League provincial final which will start on Sunday at 6 p.m. at Great Chief Park. They now await the winner of the Fort Saskatchewan Athletics and the Confederation Cubs, whose best-of-three first round series is at 1-0 for the A’s.