The SAERC Saints host the Dalbrae Dragons in a make-up game in the Cape Breton West High School Hockey League.
The Saints (7-4-3) are third in the five-team league with 22 points, four points behind Inverness-Baddeck Academy for second, and 10 points ahead of the fourth-place Dragons (4-8-1), who are seven points up on last-place Eskasoni.
Dalbrae has won two of the first three games in the four-game season series.
Puck drop at the Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre is 3:30 p.m.
The Dr. J.H. Gillis Royals open the playoffs in the Northern Nova Scotia High School Hockey League when they take on the Northumberland Nighthawks in Truro.
The teams finished the regular season at the bottom of the five-team league; the Royals (3-11-1) were last with 10 points, three points back of the Nighthawks (4-10-3) for fourth.
The teams split the four-game season series.
Game time is 6:30 p.m.
The Dr. J.H. Gillis Royals host the Amherst Vikings in the NSSAF Div. 2 boys basketball regional championship game.
The Royals advanced with a 102-34 semi-final win at home against South Colchester Tuesday.
Tip off in Antigonish is 5 p.m.
The StFX basketball teams open an AUS home-and-home series against the Cape Breton Capers in Sydney.
The X-Men (6-11), who have won two of their last three, are fifth in the eight-team conference with 20 points, two points behind the Capers (7-10) for fourth, and four points ahead of sixth-place Memorial.
The teams have split the first two games in the four-game season series.
The winless X-Women (0-17) are last; the Capers (15-2), who have won the first two games between the teams, are tied with UPEI for top spot with 40 points.
The women get underway at 6 p.m.; the men tip off at 8 p.m.; the teams wrap up their home-and-home series in Antigonish Saturday night.
Meanwhile, officials in the StFX Athletics Department have suspended Lee Anna Osei, the head coach of the X-Women basketball team, for the remainder of the season.
Osei hasn’t coached since she allegedly made a first-year player perform a disciplinary drill during a January practice.
The drill left the player’s wrists and forearms scraped and bruised, and she required medical attention.
