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— Michael St. Croix of Winnipeg, who plays for the Edmonton Oil Kings of the Western Hockey League is the lone Manitoban selected among 38 skaters to attend Canada’s national men’s summer under-18 team selection camp, July 31-Aug. 3 in Calgary.

The roster includes 14 defencemen and 24 forwards. Four goaltenders will be added to the camp roster following the June 17-20 Program of Excellence goaltending camp, also in Calgary.

The camp roster includes 12 skaters from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, 15 from the Ontario Hockey League, 10 from the Western Hockey League and one from the Central Canadian Hockey League (Junior A). In total, 36 of those 38 skaters (14 defencemen and 22 forwards) competed at the 2010 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge.

Of the 43 players who have been identified for the selection camp, 22 skaters and two goaltenders will be selected to play in the 2010 Memorial of Ivan Hlinka tournament, Aug. 10-14 in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

— Five records fell by the wayside Saturday as the Milk Provincial High School Track and Field Championships wrapped up at the University of Manitoba.

It was Julia Zrinyi of Vincent Massey Collegiate however, who toppled the most notable of records, when she broke 3,000-metre Olympic bronze medalist Angela Chalmers’ 31-year-old junior varsity girls 800-metres mark by three quarters of a second. Zrinyi sped the distance in a time of two minutes 12.14 seconds.

Also notching records on Saturday were Paul Rydberg of Margaret Barbour Collegiate in The Pas, with 2,625 points in the varsity boys tetrathlon (previous record 2,523 by Tyler Nelson, 2007); Wyatt Eyford of Warren Collegiate, in the junior varsity boys 100-metre hurdles at 14.10 (previous record 14.26 by Stefan Arnason of Gimli, 2003); Kayleigh Wiens of Garden Valley Collegiate in Winkler in the varsity girls tetrathlon with 2,199 points, (previous record 2,143 by Karolina Robak of John Taylor, 2009; Carly Paracholski of Sisler High School, in the varsity girls 400 metres in 55.85 (previous record 56.13 by Alyssa Johnson of Sisler, 2008).

Athletes of the meet were, Zrinyi, junior varsity girls, gold medal in junior varsity girls 3,000 metres; Ryan Croy, Lord Selkirk, junior varsity boys; Paracholski, varsity girls, gold medals in the 100, 200 and 400 metres; Ben Allen, Kelvin, varsity boys, gold medals in the 100 and 200 metres and long jump.

— Breezy Bend’s Peter More and St. Boniface’s Tammy Gibson are Golf Manitoba’s match play champions. More beat Myles Sullivan of Portage Golf Club two-up. Gibson also finished two-up on clubmate Kathryn McKenzie.

The tournaments were held at the Elmhurst and Minnewasta clubs.

— The Summer In The City Street Festival and three-on-three basketball tournament will be held Friday through Sunday at the University of Winnipeg and Spence Street. The tournament is sponsored by the University of Winnipeg Inner City Wesmen basketball program.

Three-on-three tournament action from ages seven to 18 and older, as well as basketball skills competitions, will take place on Spence.

Further information can be obtained by going to www.uwinnipeg.ca

— The Sandra Schmirler Manitoba Golf Classic, July 22 at Larters at St. Andrews Golf and Country Club is bringing together some interesting notables.

Nolan Thiessen, lead on Kevin Koe’s 2010 world men’s curling champion team, will join forces with Mike McEwen’s Manitoba finalist team.

Thiessen and his World Curling Tour rivals Mike McEwen, Denni Neufeld, Matt Wozniak, and B.J. Neufeld have all polished up their clubs in anticipation of this sixth annual event.

In the first five years, the Classic has raised nearly $80,000 for the Sandra Schmirler Foundation and the Children’s Hospital Foundation. With the help of these great young Manitoba curlers, sponsors and the fans who support the event, the organizing committee anticipates funding for the two charities to surpass $100,000 in 2010.

An entry form is available at (www.thecurler.com/schmirlermanitobagolf). Foursomes or single entries are welcome. The $760/foursome ($200 single) entry fee includes breakfast, cart and 18 holes of golf, lunch, on-course contests and promotions, and a buffet-style prize banquet. For more information, go to the web link noted above or call Zivan Saper 955-9202.

— Allan Besson