Local Sports

A scheduling anomaly found the Scorpions playing the Richmond Lightning three weeks in a row in rep soccer action. On Oct. 19 in Richmond, the Scorpions faced some adversity early.

It's title time again at Elphinstone Secondary School. On Tuesday night, the juvenile girls volleyball team defeated St. Thomas Aquinas 3-1 to win the North Shore league banner.

The second annual Holiday Hustle 5k/2k will take place on Sunday, Dec. 8 starting at the Seaside Centre in Sechelt. This is a fundraiser for the Chatelech Secondary School concert band and the Elves Club in support of their Christmas hamper campaign.

The high school volleyball season is winding down for Coast teams, but it has been a solid season with teams making the playoffs while others play their last league games before the playoff push.

Rugby sevens is quickly making an impact at the high school level on the Coast - so much so, the possibility for a resurgence in the game Coast-wide is promising.

The Sunshine Coast Falcons and Vancouver Marpole Blue Aces locked up in a highly entertaining cup match in the U13 rep boys division last weekend in Sechelt.

Wolves continued chewing through the competition, as the Pender Harbour Bananas were the latest squad to have their entrails ripped out by the victory-ravenous Wolves in a 7-0 rout.

Gibsons Ryan Dempster has his World Series ring. Dempster and the Boston Red Sox dominated game six on Wednesday night, winning 6-1 over the St. Louis Cardinals to win the series four games to two.

Gibsons' Ryan Dempster and the Boston Red Sox have one more challenge ahead of them before they can claim a World Series ring - the St. Louis Cardinals. The BoSox and Cardinals opened up the 2013 World Series on Wednesday night in Boston.

The Sunshine Coast rep Falcons picked up a 1-0 win last weekend over the Vancouver Titans. Devin Pedretti scored the lone goal in the second half. Both offence and defence worked together well in the shutout win.