Local Sports

The Sechelt Mariners bantam baseball team had an impressive showing recently, winning a silver medal at the Mission River Rush tournament on the May long weekend.

Racers and spectators turned out in the hundreds for the world's premier longboarding event - the 8th Attack of Danger Bay in Pender Harbour last Sunday. "It's just a great community event. Everybody seems really supportive.

The Squirt Division Gibsons Crusherz put in a dominating performance in winning a tournament in Cloverdale recently. Gibsons went 3-1 in the round robin on the strength of stellar pitching efforts by Hannah Smith, Carly Gillard and Leah Ewert.

Dragon boating Spirit of Aloha Racing (SOAR) competed in its second race of the year at the Brotchie Reach Outrigger Canoe event in Victoria May 2.

Chalk up another North Shore championship banner for Elphinstone. The Elphi bantam boys captured their first mountain bike championship at the North Shore finals held last Wednesday (May 13) in North Vancouver.

The Sunshine Coast Golf and Country Club (SCGCC) is proud to offer a comprehensive junior golf program open to boys and girls aged six to 18.

The first baseball title of the season came to the Coast courtesy of the Gibsons Red Tide. The midget league team, sponsored by Coastal Tires, won the Scott Smith Memorial tournament in Ridge Meadows May 3.

2009 a success but future of Rat Race remains in doubt

After 38 years a dream has been fulfilled for John Rainer. The popular Gibsons barber and rugby player recently returned from a trip of a lifetime - a rugby tour in New Zealand.

With the advent of new squash courts on the Coast, the Sunshine Coast Squash Association recently held its inaugural squash tournament at the Gibsons and Area Community Centre.