Local Sports

The North Shore Twins won their second straight B.C. Premier League baseball championship Aug. 17 in Nanaimo, and Gibsons' Mitch Rainer played a huge role in the victory.

Sunshine Coast hockey players got a jump on the upcoming season during the fifth annual summer hockey school last week in Gibsons. The camp, held at the Gibsons and Area Community Centre, saw approximately 60 kids take part.

When 11-year-old Matt Whittall goes back to school in September, he will have quite a summer of baseball stories to tell.

Skills development was the name of the game at this year's Sunshine Coast volleyball camp in Sechelt.

Close to 90 youth soccer players enjoyed top-notch instruction from one of the game's best last week. Drew Ferguson held his annual soccer camp in co-operation with the Sunshine Coast Youth Soccer Association at Cliff Gilker Park.

Organizers of last weekend's Festival of the Rolling Arts have proclaimed it the best motorsports weekend yet.

Athletes from the Sechelt Indian Band (SIB) did their community proud last week, picking up 11 medals in the soccer competition at the North American Indigenous Games in Cowichan.

It's time to start lacing up those skates and getting prepared for another hockey season. And what better way to get a jump on the competition than at the Sunshine Coast summer hockey school.

Sunshine Coast Skating Club members have kicked off the 2008/09 season. After travelling to Burnaby for the last two and a half months, club members are excited to be back training on the Coast.

The Gibsons Minor Ball Association (GMBA) was well represented around the province last weekend as four teams took to the field in search of provincial championships.