Local Sports

A strong Sunshine Coast contigent helped the Lower Mainland zone to a third place finish at last weekend's B.C. Senior Games in Prince George.

Scott "Scoot" Smith has done it again. For the second year running, the green-haired Pender Harbour hill bomber has polished off the competition at the prestigious Maryhill "Festival of Speed" championship, held in Goldendale, Wash. in late August.

Gibsons' Ryan Dempster and the Chicago Cubs have picked the wrong time to go on a losing streak.

From the age of four, Cailin Perry knew she would be a soccer player. The 13-year-old midfielder from Gibsons has played soccer for as long as she can remember, and her hard work and dedication to the sport is starting to pay off in a big way.

In just under two weeks, thousands of participants throughout B.C. will join countless others across the country and around the world in the 28th annual Terry Fox Run. On the Coast, the community Terry Fox Run will take place on Sunday, Sept.

Garden Bay native Kyle Bruce is taking his North American hockey skills across the pond. On Aug.

Posting their best times ever in three heats, McKenzie Mussels mixed dragon boat team achieved a great photo finish to finish second in their final race.The 22 men and women, plus supporters, travelled to Victoria Aug.

The North Shore Twins won their second straight B.C. Premier League baseball championship Aug. 17 in Nanaimo, and Gibsons' Mitch Rainer played a huge role in the victory.

Sunshine Coast hockey players got a jump on the upcoming season during the fifth annual summer hockey school last week in Gibsons. The camp, held at the Gibsons and Area Community Centre, saw approximately 60 kids take part.

When 11-year-old Matt Whittall goes back to school in September, he will have quite a summer of baseball stories to tell.