Local Sports

Young volleyball players on the Coast were treated to some first class coaching during this year's Sunshine Coast Volleyball Camp. The camp ran from Aug.

Players from tyke to midget were put through the paces last week in Gibsons at the annual Sunshine Coast Hockey School.

Swimmers from the Sunshine Coast had all the right strokes, winning 53 medals at last week's B.C. Seniors Games in the Kootenays. The medal count included 25 gold, 14 silver and 14 bronze medals for the 11 swimmers from the Coast.

Under sunny skies and almost perfect weather conditions, a total of 39 competitors entered the five main draws of last weekend's 36th annual Sunshine Coast Open tennis tournament.

Gibsons Ryan Dempster was good, but not good enough, as the Atlanta Braves shut out the Chicago Cubs 3-0 Monday night at Wrigley Field.

A change in disciplines has paid off for Halfmoon Bay's Katherine Short as the cross-country cyclist turned downhill racer will be competing on behalf of Canada at the world championships Aug. 31.

The fourth annual Four Lakes 10k is coming up this Sunday, Aug. 21. This run starts and finishes at Katherine Lake Park, going past Garden Bay Lake and Mixal Lake on the way to Hotel Lake, then back.

More than 90 drag racers, some from the Island and the Lower Mainland met to discover who's best under a sunny sky at Sechelt Airport for the 13th annual August drag races on Sunday, Aug. 14.

Coast players TJ Turenne and Nate Haglund both have added to their promising basketball resumes in a big way with a gold medal winning performance at the Western Canada Summer Games in Kamloops.

The Gibsons peewee Dodgers captured a provincial baseball title last weekend in Burnaby with a thrilling 7-6 win over the Aldergrove Braves.