Local Sports

Six Sunshine Coast Special Olympics athletes are competing in the Special Olympics Provincial Games in Langley this weekend. More than 1,100 B.C. and Yukon athletes will be there, showing their skill, determination and true sportsmanship.

Heading into the final corner before the BC Bike Race's day seven finish line at Whistler Olympic Plaza, Spencer Paxson was inches away from teammate and overall winner, Sechelt's Kris Sneddon, both fighting off Denmark's Erik Skovgaard Knudsen.

Five players from Gibsons helped the Rossinis Jazz fastball team from Vancouver to the senior C provincial championship last weekend at Softball City in Surrey.

The Lighthouse/IGA Raiders had a big week picking up a pair of wins in Sunshine Coast Men's Fastball League action.

The peewee Rapids are off to the provincial lacrosse championships in Kamloops next week after beating Mission twice last weekend in a best-of-three playoff series.

The organizing committee of the Malaspina Regatta has always had the objective of having the same number of boats competing as the number of years that the race has been held.

Sechelt's Kris Sneddon has a little over a one-minute lead ahead of Squamish's Neal Kindree after day four of the BC Bike Race rolled through Sechelt Wednesday afternoon.

The national women's volleyball team finished in seventh place at the Pan American Cup women's volleyball tournament in Lima, Peru. Roberts Creek's Kyla Richey figured prominently in the results, which concluded with a three-game sweep of Peru.

The final regular season games are in the books for Sunshine Coast Rapids lacrosse with some teams getting ready for a run at provincial titles. The novice team wrapped up its season at the Golden Spike tournament in Port Moody.

Beaming smiles, cheering and laughter filled Hackett Park and the Sechelt Learning Centre's fields last Saturday, June 22.