Local Sports

Former Sunshine Coast Skating Club member Beres Clements won a gold medal at last weekend's BC Winter Games in Mission. Beres, from Gibsons, who is now skating in the Lower Mainland with the Connaught Skating Club, won the men's juvenile title.

The Chatelech ski and snowboard team had a great showing at the North Shore Secondary School Championships held at Whistler-Blackcomb last weekend. Pearl Deasey took first place overall in girls snowboarding.

It's shaping up to be a busy few weekends for Coast athletes at the university level as playoffs are about to start in earnest.

The Sunshine Coast Lacrosse Association would like you to consider playing "the fastest game on two feet." The association has an exciting season ahead. Online registration is up and running.

Over the past few weeks we've all enjoyed watching the Olympics and all that this great coming together of nations and athletes brings every four years. We've watched sports that we seldom see, exotic sports foreign to our Canadian experience.

Earlier this month, several athletes from the Sunshine Coast embarked on a mission to the Fraser Valley to participate in a doubles tournament dubbed "Mission Madness.

The men's soccer league teams at Ted Dixon Field held a pre-game memorial last Sunday to honor the passing of Barry Johnson, an accomplished, long-time fixture in Coast soccer who at one point played within the Whitecaps organization.

If a strikeout for the final out in game one of the World Series is the last time we see Gibsons' Ryan Dempster pitch in the Major Leagues, then what a way to go out.

The Elphinstone senior boys are one win away from a North Shore championship. The Cougars clinched their spot in the title game after winning their first two playoff games. Elphi started last Friday night (Feb.

The U15 Scorpions claimed the North Shore Championship for the third time in four years last Sunday with a penalty kick win over the North Vancouver Fury. The two teams locked up first in a league clash on Saturday, where the Fury won 2-3.