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Micaela Stone laughs when asked if she ever played another position beside keeper during her soccer career.“It was my choice (to play in goal) — I don’t like to run that much.”The 18-year-old from Camrose has turned into one of the top young female goaltenders in the province, playing with the Red Deer Renegades of the Alberta Major Soccer League and with the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns.

The 10-21 Red Deer Midget AAA Braves season may be over, but they’re still alive.They will be hosting a play-in tournament this weekend at Great Chief Park to decide the final two spots for tier I provincials in St. Albert over the August long weekend.

The CFL needs to issue an official statement after last weekend and serve notice they will leave no stone unturned in their search for missing CFL offences following their strange disappearance early in the 2014 season. The league should employ every measure at its disposal, including a milk carton campaign, to find the missing offences.

The Red Deer Riggers flirted with an undefeated Sunburst Baseball League season almost right down to the wire.But all good things must come to an end and the Riggers suffered their first league setback of the year Tuesday at Great Chief Park, falling 7-5 to the Fort Saskatchewan A’s.

The Red Deer Rampage took advantage of a frustrated and undisciplined opponent Sunday at the Kinex and are now one win away from advancing to the junior B tier 1 North final of the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League.The hosts struck for four overtime goals — including two on the power play — to pull out a 12-10 victory and take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five series. Game 4 is set for Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Kinex.

The Red Deer Riggers weren’t leaving anything to chance in the final of their own senior men’s baseball tournament Sunday at Great Chief Park.After suffering their first loss of the season within provincial borders — 3-2 to the Calgary Wolfpack — Saturday night and edging the Fort Saskatchewan A’s 9-7 in a semifinal Sunday afternoon, the Riggers buried the Wolfpack 12-0 in a championship game that was called after five innings due to the 10-run mercy rule.

It’s one step forward, two steps back for the Red Deer Renegades Alberta Major Soccer League women’s team.After finally getting their first points of the season in a tie last weekend with the Lethbridge FC, they came out with a lackluster performance on Saturday in their home finale and were beat 4-0 by the Edmonton Scottish Angels (7-3-0).

Lee Adamson may have been nipped out at the line in the dash for cash, but the blow was softened by wrapping up his second North American Pony Chuckwagon Championship — 20 years after the first — at the Westerner Days on Sunday.The Camrose driver’s overall time of six minutes, 32.43 seconds was 3.06 seconds faster than Neil Salmond of Weekes, Sask. in the Uncle Ben’s RV outfit, who did win the final race and $4,500 cheque with a time of 1:16.91.

Red Deer Buccaneers head coach Duane Brown needed just one word to describe their 14-9 Alberta Football League loss to the expansion Fort McMurray Monarchs on Saturday at MEGlobal Athletic Park in Lacombe.“Embarrassing,” he said. “The entire first half we could not execute anything, we couldn’t do a hand off, we couldn’t catch the ball, we couldn’t run the ball, we couldn’t throw the ball and the offence clearly let the defence down, they played an amazing game.”

t’s a three-team race for the right to host the 2016 Memorial Cup.The Red Deer Rebels recently threw their hat into the ring and the Vancouver Giants and Victoria Royals submitted bids to the Western Hockey League head office this week.