This Week in Red Deer Polytechnic Athletics

Hockey

Queens (16-4) vs SAIT Trojans (7-12)

Friday, February 9 | 7 pm in Red Deer
Saturday, February 10 | 5 pm in Calgary

The Queens will put their scoreless streak on the line this weekend as they clash with the SAIT Trojans for their final home-and-home series against each other this season. RDP heads into the weekend with three consecutive shutouts with goaltender Tora Ward (Open Studies) picking up the last two.

Back on October 20 and 21, the Queens defeated the Trojans 3-1 and 4-0 with forward Avery Lajeunesse (Bachelor of Education) finishing the weekend with four points, two goals and two assists. Forward Jailyn Bablitz (Bachelor of Education) also had a four-point weekend against the Trojans with three assists and one goal in the two wins.

The game on Friday will start at 7 pm with the puck dropping on Saturday’s game in Calgary at 5 pm.

Kings (12-8) vs SAIT Trojans (10-8)

Friday, February 9 | 6 pm in Calgary
Saturday, February 10 | 7 pm in Red Deer (Kings Hockey Alumni Night)

With just one loss in the 2024 calendar year, the Kings Hockey will look to continue their dominance in the new year as they clash with the SAIT Trojans in a home-and-home series that starts in Calgary on Friday with the puck dropping at 6 pm.

The Kings have not had the best of luck this season against the Trojans with both games ending in losses. But since those two losses, the men have gone 8-2 and sit in second place in the conference with a good chance of earning the first-round bye in the playoffs. They sit just one point ahead of the Ooks with just four games left on the schedule.

Following the game on Friday, RDP will welcome Kings Hockey Alumni to the game on Saturday which will start at 7 pm.

Basketball

Queens (15-3) vs University of Alberta-Augustana Vikings (7-10)

Saturday, February 10 | 6 pm in Red Deer (Graduation Athlete Ceremony)

The Queens will look to get back in the win column in their lone game this weekend as they host the University of Alberta-Augustana Vikings on Saturday.

This past weekend saw the Queens lose back-to-back games for the first time this season against the Briercrest College Clippers. Both games were very close but the Polytechnic will look to shake it off and come away with a win this weekend as they look to increase their odds of finishing in first place in the South Division. The team sits with a 15-3 record which places them in first place but the Lethbridge College Kodiaks are just two points back with a game in hand.

The game will start at 6 pm on Saturday. Following the player of the game ceremony, the Queens will honour their graduating student-athletes with this being the final home game of the regular season.

Kings (11-7) vs University of Alberta-Augustana Vikings (6-11)

Saturday, February 10 | 8 pm in Red Deer (Graduation Athlete Ceremony)

As the Kings Basketball team honours their graduating athletes this Saturday, the team will look to put an end to a four-game losing skid. Like the Queens, the Kings lost back-to-back games on the road to the Briercrest College Clippers who are now just two points back of RDP for the third seed in the South Division.

The Kings have had a rough time adjusting to the new year as they sit with a 2-6 record in 2024. But they will look to change that as they host a Vikings team that has struggled this season as they sit in sixth in the North Division with a 6-11 record.

The game on Saturday will start at 8 pm.

Volleyball

Queens (12-5) vs University of Alberta-Augustana Vikings (15-3)

Saturday, February 10 | 6 pm in Camrose

The CCAA National Championship hosts will be in for a test this weekend as the Queens will face off with the University of Alberta-Augustan Vikings on Saturday in Camrose.

The Vikings enter this weekend with an eight-match win streak and sit in second place in the North Division with a 15-3 record. On the other hand, the Queens have dropped their last two matches against the Briercrest College Clippers which were very close. But with these two losses, RDP has fallen to second in the South Division which makes this match a battle of two second-place teams this weekend.

The match will be live streamed on ACACTV on Saturday at 6 pm.

Kings (14-3) vs University of Alberta-Augustana Vikings (1-17)

Saturday, February 10 | 8 pm in Camrose

Following two intense matches against the Briercrest College Clippers, the Kings will just have one match this weekend as they head up to Camrose for a battle against the University of Alberta-Augustana Vikings.

The last time these two teams clashed with one another, the Kings walked away with a straight-set victory over the Vikings. Right-hitter Brett Lower (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) finished with a match-high 15 kills in the win which accounted for a third of the team’s total kills that evening. Outside-hitter Nicholas Possingham (Open Studies) also had an outstanding match with 10 kills.

The match will take place in the Vikings’ gymnasium and will be live streamed on ACACTV at 8 pm.

Kings and Queens Indoor Track

February 10 hosted by Red Deer Polytechnic at the Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre

In the final meet of the Indoor Track circuit before the ACAC Championships, the Kings and Queens teams will get to run on home turf with the Polytechnic hosting the event this Saturday.

Both teams had a great day of competition two weeks ago in Edmonton. The Queens will head into the Grand Prix on Saturday as the top seed with 83 points which is 35 points ahead of second place. Loami Rautenbach (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) will be one Queens runner to watch as she finished with a first and second-place finish in the two short-distance events while helping her team to two first-place finishes in the relay events.

On the men’s side, the Kings go into the weekend in third place with 46 points. Ben House (Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences) was the top finisher for the Kings as he had multiple podium finishes including a first-place finish in the 1500m.

The first event will take place around 10 am with the day finishing around 3 pm.

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