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The St. Paul Lions became Wheatland Football League champions when the team defeated the Cold Lake Royals, 40-21, on Saturday afternoon in a thrilling battle at St. Paul Regional High School field. “It was a hard fought game.

The St. Paul Canadiens (2-8-0) played past regulation for the first time this season and came out on top with a 5-4 victory over the Killam Wheat Kings (6-3-2) in three-on-three overtime.

It was a battle right to the bitter end, said Bonnyville Bandits head coach Dan Jubinville, but his team came together when it counted most last Saturday in Lloydminster, capturing the team's second straight Wheatland Bantam Football League champions

The Bonnyville Bandits are set for a rematch of last year's Wheatland Bantam Football League championship final after defeating the St. Paul Bengals in the semifinal game in Bonnyville this past Saturday.

Despite losing four of its last five games and being outscored 24-12 during that stretch, the Bonnyville Jr. A Pontiacs hope to have turned things around after pulling out a dramatic comeback victory in a shootout over the Eagles Sunday in Canmore.

The St. Paul Lions earned a berth in the Wheatland Football League championship game and boosted their provincial ranking to third when they defeated the Lloydminster Holy Rosary Raiders, 61-34, on Saturday afternoon.

The Alberta Schools’ Athletic Association held its provincial cross-country championships in Red Deer last weekend, with Ecole Mallaig School picking up its sixth banner in as many years. Ecole Mallaig School registered 1,020.

The Portage College Voyageurs won Thursday night's hockey game against the Grant MacEwan 4-2 at the Bold Center. Game two in the home-and-home series goes Saturday in Edmonton. Check our Coach Terry Ewasiuk's comments in the POST's new series of interviews POST GAME with Andrew Whitson.

The crowd was there, the people were hyped up, the brand new building was open for business and hockey was finally being played on Cold Lake's newest ice surface.

With just one lopsided loss over the weekend the Bonnyville Jr. A Pontiacs dropped from first to third in the AJHL's North Division standings. The Pontiacs came out flat in front of a 672-person crowd at the R.J.