Senior Bowl returns to the field in Lacombe this weekend
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After a two year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Senior Bowl – an annual high school football all-star game featuring graduating Grade 12’s – returns to Lacombe’s MEGlobal Athletic Park on Monday, May 23, 2022.
This year’s game features some local talent as well, including receiver Gabe Hiebert from the Lacombe Rams, defensive back John Sansom from Red Deer’s Lindsay Thurber Raiders, fellow Raider Spencer Juricic – a running back from Rocky Mountain House, and Lukas Lynch – a defensive lineman from the Lindsay Thurber Raiders.
The first Senior Bowl was held at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium in 1990 and saw the Southern Alberta or “South” team defeat the North 19-16. Twenty nine annual games followed that one with the “South” holding a 16-13-1 edge in victories (the tie game came in 2001) over the “North” before the pandemic hit pause in 2020.
The dividing line separating the 120 high schools that can send players to try out for this event is just south of the City of Red Deer and Football Alberta officials say it’ fitting when the province will be awash in “Battle of Alberta” fever at the NHL level, that one of its most consistent battles returns to the field this year.
