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The Red Deer Stags’ Sunburst Baseball League struggles continued Thursday at Great Chief Park, where the team committed five errors and fell 6-3 to the Fort Saskatchewan Athletics.

The 2012 Notre Dame High School female athlete of the year is no more than halfway through her athletic career.

Elliot Mahood was following in the footsteps of his brother Wednesday when he was presented with the Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School male athlete of the year award.

The greatest legacy rodeo champions can provide to the sport is the next generation of competitors. A great opportunity to see that happening comes next week during the 52nd annual Daines Ranch Rodeo.

Forward Conner Bleackley and defenceman Haydn Fleury were the Red Deer Rebels’ top two picks in the 2011 Western Hockey League bantam draft for a reason.The big-bodied skaters are oozing with upside, as they demonstrated during the three-day Rebels spring prospects camp which concluded Sunday morning at the Penhold Multiplex.

The Notre Dame Cougars put together a perfect season in the Central Alberta High School Girls’ Rugby League, but it was a pair of losses that may have been just what they needed.

It wasn’t the way the Red Deer Stags hoped to open their Sunburst Baseball League season, but all they have to do is look at last year to feel better about themselves.

From as far away as London, England, and ranging in age from 11 to 70, roughly 1,500 runners will participate in the 14th Annual Woody’s RV World Marathon, Half Marathon and 10k run on Sunday.

One of the main concerns Red Deer Riggers manager Curtis Bailey has each season is pitching depth.

When the Sunburst Baseball League and Baseball Alberta got together to give the league more meaning, it was something that was long overdue according to Red Deer Stags co-manager Dan Zinger.