Local Sports

The Junior Jays can't wait to get their season started. The men's baseball team is gearing up for their second season in the Lower Mainland Baseball Association. Their home opener is tentatively slated for May 7.

The Gibsons Yacht Club's (GYC) Learn to Sail program is now in its 33rd year on the Coast, with more than 2,000 children between the ages of eight and 16 learning how to sail.

Sunshine Coast Skating Club members are busy preparing for a pair of major competitions in the coming weeks. The B.C. Section Super Series is in Parksville next week followed by another competition in late May.

The IFC Wolves edged the Pender Harbour Bananas in a shootout to claim the men's adult soccer playoff championship last Sunday. Pender was looking for its second straight championship, but it was not to be.

Sunshine Coast Cycling will again be hosting a two-day mountain bike race in Roberts Creek. Saturday, April 30, starts the weekend with a marathon cross-country race. Racers have a choice of a 45 km or 28 km loop around Roberts Creek.

Year-end tournaments to decide the School District No. 46 champions were held March 31 and April 1 at Chatelech and Elphinstone secondary schools.

The Sunshine Coast Boxing Club helped put on a show to raise money for a good cause on April 2 at the A4K (Athletics For Kids) boxing dinner show fundraiser in North Vancouver.

Year-end tournaments recently completed signaled an end to another successful season of minor soccer on the Sunshine Coast.

Vancouver's Kevin O'Connor came through with a solid victory and a sub-1:10 clocking, while Kelowna's Keddi-Anne Sherbino took nearly 30 seconds off the previous women's event record, at this year's Sunshine Coast April Fool's Run presented by Coast

When Pender won the playoff tournament last year, the other men's league teams were happy for the Bananas, because Pender are sporting nice guys and are the best hometown hosts with their barbecues.