Sharp's golf bag raises $19,000 for charity

Alena Sharp grinded out an even-par round Thursday at the Cambia Portland Classic, but she couldn’t have left Columbia Edgewater Country Club feeling better if she were atop the leaderboard.

Sharp was teary-eyed reading a text on her cell phone after the round, when she learned her act of kindness at the CP Women’s Open last week won something special for a still grieving Canadian community.

A hockey player growing up in Canada, Sharp wanted to help Humboldt, a city in Saskatchewan devastated last April when a semitrailer truck collided with the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey league team bus. Sixteen people on the bus were killed and 13 others injured.

Sharp paid tribute to the Broncos playing…