Local Sports

It's been a remarkable run for the Sunshine Coast Drag Racing Association (SCDRA), but after 15 years and 27 races president Tony Petula had to make a tough decision last Sunday afternoon.

Registration is still open for the sixth annual Four Lakes 10k and 3k this weekend. Pre-register online by 6 p.m. Saturday and save, or sign up Sunday morning between 7:45 and 8:30 a.m. at the gazebo in Katherine Lake Park.

The Sunshine Coast senior swim team is in full swing preparing for its participation in the 26th BC Senior Games in Kamloops, Aug. 20 to 24. More than 3,500 B.C. seniors are expected to attend these Games.

A successful mountain bike season has landed two Sunshine Coast riders on Canada's national team for the upcoming world championships in South Africa.

For the second time in three years, the Fujis knocked off The Eh Team from Vancouver in the A-division championship at the Perfect Storm slo-pitch tournament.

A champion will be crowned this weekend at Hackett Park in Sechelt as the Sunshine Coast Men's Fastball League playoffs begin bright and early Saturday morning. Games start Saturday at 9 a.m. with the final game at 5:45 p.m.

One of North America's most scenic and challenging marathons has added a third race to its roster. The third annual Run the Rock (RTR) on Texada Island Aug.

Gibsons Brandy Perry, who now calls North Vancouver home, is off to the Canada Summer Games this week to compete in the wrestling competition. Brandy and 10 other girls from across B.C.

SC Spirit of Excellence will take a group of local teens ages 10 to 16 to a exciting surf and stand up paddle board camp with Catherine Bruhwiler who just recently won the 2013 Canadian National Female Surf Championship in Tofino.

Calypso Calamity ensued at the Gibsons and Area Community Centre where the Sunshine Coast Roller Girls Red Tide Warning lost an entertaining 138-111 contest to the Mainland Misfits Doomsday Bunnies in the Coast's first home roller derby match of the