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Local sports briefs - May 30 AM

The visiting Red Deer Carstar Braves gave up nine runs on only four hits Sunday in a 9-7 midget AAA baseball loss to St. Albert.
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Carstar Braves fall to St. Albert

The visiting Red Deer Carstar Braves gave up nine runs on only four hits Sunday in a 9-7 midget AAA baseball loss to St. Albert.

Jonah Penner started on the Red Deer mound and surrendered seven runs on three hits over two innings. Reign Letkeman worked the next three frames — giving up two runs on one hit — and Mack Guckert pitched a hitless, scoreless sixth inning.

Offensively, Corbyn Shields stroked a triple and scored once, Wyle Cunningham cracked an RBI double and scored a run, Penner scored twice and drove in a run and Chad Walchuk plated one run and knocked in two more.

The Braves host the Foothills Black Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Great Chief Park.


Bantam AAA Braves go 2-1

The Red Deer Servus Credit Union Braves were 2-1 in weekend bantam AAA baseball action on the road.

The Braves opened with an 8-6 loss to the Edmonton Cardinals, as starting pitcher Joel Mazurkewich allowed one run on three hits while fanning five batters over three innings before being relieved by Riley Guntrip and Ryan Klinck. Mazurkewich also stroked a triple and scored a run.

In a 12-2 thumping of Lloydminster, starter and winning pitcher Levi Moon coughed up just one run on two hits while recording four strikeouts over four innings. Jesse Muirhead worked the final frame in relief.

At the plate, Ryan Klinck went two-for-two with a double, one RBI and three runs scored, Mazurkewich was two-for-three with a double, two RBI and two runs scored, Nik Fischer contributed a double and scored once, and Mitch Vanson and Riley Guntrip each chipped in with a two-run single.

Vanson went the distance on the Braves mound in a 10-0 romp over Spruce Grove, giving up three hits while fanning nine batters over the full five innings of the mercy-rule contest.

Mazurkewich was hot at the plate with a single, double, triple and four RBI, while Klinck stroked two singles, scored twice and drove in two runs.


Hall gets a scholarship

Dallen Hall of the Red Deer Optimist Rebels is the recipient of an Alberta Midget Hockey League $1,000 scholarship, sponsored by the Dodge dealers of Alberta and Source for Sports.

The post-secondary scholarships were awarded to one player from each of the league’s 17 teams.

U15 Titans sweep homestand

The Red Deer Titans under-15 girls won a pair of home-pitch rugby matches, downing Edmonton Gold 20-15 and the Edmonton Green 20-10.

Brittany Shaw, Emma Newton, Sydney Doan, Rebecca Tedrick each scored a try for the Titans in the first match. Shaw and Newton each had two tries versus the Edmonton Green.

• The Titans under-13 boys, with Johannes Smith scoring three tries and Reece Flunder and Adrian Ollewagon each adding two, defeated the Foothills Lions 35-30.

The U13 Titans girls, meanwhile, posted a 2-2 record in games against Edmonton and the Calgary Saracens.

The Titans’ top scorers were Sierra Laye and Rebekah Maciborsky with three tries apiece.

• In Red Deer U11 boys play, the Purple All Blacks were 3-0 as Adrik Lubchenko and Euan Tindall were the top scorer and tackler.

The White Bears, with Dylan Hilman and Mason Deditch leading the way offensively and defensively, were 2-1, as were the Salmon Crush, whose leading scorer and tackler were Kallen Vickery and Theo Ollewagen.

Raine Flunder and Massimo Smith were the offensive and defensive forces for the 1-2 Crimson Tide.


Red Deer United tie Edmonton Northwest

EDMONTON — In the history of the Red Deer United women’s soccer team, there hasn’t been many bigger goals scored in the first game of the season.

But Sidney Danes’ marker with 10 minutes to go gave the United a 2-2 tie with the Edmonton Northwest United in their Alberta Major Soccer League lid lifter.

Yes, it was just a tie, but it was also represented the first point the mostly struggling United program has taken off of the Northwest team in seven years.

Even more remarkable is Danes is a call up from the U15 United program and had just stepped off the plane after competing in a barrel racing competition in Vancouver.

Quite the opening to the season.

Rachel Gaudry scored the other goal for the United while Lauren Goode starred in net — the only two shots that beat her came on penalty kicks.

The United open their home schedule on June 5 at noon at Red Deer College against the Calgary Saints.


Keegan Soehn wins national championship

Red Deer Thunder Country Trampoline and Gymnastics Club star Keegan Soehn was golden in the national senior men’s trampoline and synchronized trampoline events of the Canadian championships at Charlottetown, P.E.I., during the weekend.

Soehn, who also earned a silver medal in double mini trampoline (DMT), won the synchronized event with his brother, Kyle.

Kyle Soehn, meanwhile, finished fourth in each of the natonal senior men’s trampoline and DMT events.

Caiden Cline picked up a bronze medal in the 11-14 national novice men’s DMT, and along with Keegan Soehn was a member of the gold-medal Alberta team, which also consisted of two athletes from Calgary. As well, Cline was fifth in the trampoline competition. Brittany Lane placed eighth in each of the national youth women’s trampoline and DMT, Morgan Akins was sixth in the 15 and over national novice women’s trampoline and 19th in the DMT, Amanda Martin finished 10th in the national youth women’s trampoline, and Kalena Soehn was 14th in the 11-14 national novice women’s DMT and 15th in trampoline.