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Local Players Get National Team Tryouts
A number of local volleyball players have been invited to Volleyball Canada's senior national team selection camps to be held in May in Winnipeg.
If Alberta catches Manitoba in the standings today, it would force a tiebreaker game, with the winner getting the bye to the final.Armour's squad earned their fortune with a split in their first two games of the day, a 6-3 loss to Nova Scotia and a 4-1 win over British Columbia.On the women's side, Carly Robinson of the Portage Curling Club (4-3) needed some help to reach the playoffs.
The most recent technological advance in Scinocca's swing arsenal is a vector launch monitor, which uses light strobes to measure a player's swing speed and ball speed off the club.
Wheat Kings&Amp;Quot; Success Sign of More to Come
Acquiring rugged right-winger Matt Lowry (24 goals, 61 points) for a measly sixth-round bantam draft pick may have been the steal of the season in the WHL, while picking up punishing 6-foot-5 defenceman Matt McCue for a fourth-round pick at the WHL trade deadline was a move that paid huge dividends in the second half when captain Daryl Boyle (shoulder), intimidating Theran Yeo (knee surgery) and hard-hitting Chad Erb (broken thumb) all missed significant time with injuries.
Ex-Rivals Team Up for Sjhl Title Run
All three have earned regular ice time with the Klippers this season, each playing more than 50 games and helping Kindersley to a 31-22-2-3 record and third place in the Sherwood Conference during the regular season. The Klippers upset the first-place Weyburn Red Wings in five games in the conference semifinals, then got by the Melville Millionaires on the conference final, clinching the series in a 3-2 double-overtime thriller in Game 6.