Local Sports

The Sunshine Coast Youth Soccer Association (SCYSA) completed its year-end tournaments for the house divisions this past weekend.

The Peewee C2 and C1 teams from the Sunshine Coast Minor Hockey Association came up a little short in their quest for playoff banners last weekend. Both teams lost their respective banner games to finish second in the playoffs.

Forget about last year. Ryan Dempster has. He's not dwelling on last April or last year or the fact this is the last year of his contract.

The drive for five has arrived for Kyla Richey and the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds.

The accolades keep pouring in for Roberts Creek's Kyla Richey. The fifth-year stand out with the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds, was named the CIS player of the year in women's volleyball Wednesday night (Feb.

Another banner could be hanging in the rafters at the Gibsons and Area Community Centre for the Sunshine Coast Minor Hockey Association.

The year end tournament for the U7, U8 and U9 co-ed divisions along with the U11 boys of the Sunshine Coast Youth Soccer Association (SCYSA) took place on March 3.

The Sunshine Coast Scorpions continued to battle flu and injury and went into their last league game with a depleted roster of only 12.

Action on the pitch is heating up in the adult soccer leagues with the playoffs only a few weeks away.

The Dianne Gauthier rink from the Royal City Curling Club beat the Juanita Wannamaker foursome of Gibsons to win the annual women's bonspiel at the Gibsons Curling Club last weekend.