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Five martial artists from the Sunshine Coast competed in the North American Amateur Muay Thai Championships and Canadian Sport Sanshou Championships Jan. 29 at BCIT. Muay Thai is a martial art that uses kicks, punches, knees and clinching.

The Chatelech and Elphinstone senior boys tuned up for the playoffs with a hard-fought league game last Thursday in Gibsons that was won 88-73 by the Eagles.

U15 Inferno brought home a 3-0 victory over the Breakers from Squamish on Sunday.

The Elphinstone bantam girls ended their season with a flourish Feb. 1 by edging Don Ross Secondary in Brackendale (Squamish) 34-30.

The Gibsons Curling Club has been rocking the past few weekends with a pair of major bonspiels. The mixed bonspiel was held Jan. 28 to 30 and featured 19 teams, six from off-Coast.

The Powell River Regals claimed home ice advantage for the upcoming best-of-three playoff series with an 11-5 win over the Sunshine Coast Hitmen last Friday night in Sechelt.

The Chatelech senior boys won for the eighth time in nine outings with an 82-55 win over St. Thomas Aquinas 82-55 on Feb. 2.

It's not often that a team loses a basketball game by 46 points and still has reason to celebrate, but that's what happened last Saturday as the Elphinstone Cougars took the second-place trophy in the bantam girls' tournament.

The Sunshine Coast Hitmen hook up with the Powell River Regals tonight (Friday) in Sechelt with the winner getting home ice advantage in the best-of-three playoff to see which area team will head to the Coy Cup.