Local Sports

CALs Crushers and Xenichen Ya Yas put points between themselves and the rest of the women's league with wins this week. Marshall Mayhem extinguished IGA Blazers second place chances with their 4-2 win.

Four games in six nights were just too much for the Elphinstone Cougars to overcome. The senior boys playoff run came to a close on Feb. 20, following a 75-54 loss to Collingwood. Elphi started the playoffs with a 81-73 win over St.

Halfmoon Bay's Kendyl Smith snagged a silver medal at last weekend's B.C. Winter Games in Cranbrook. Kendyl, 13, won the medal after her zone five team (Vancouver-Squamish) placed second in the team category.

Seventeen-year-old Yelaina May from Roberts Creek has been named to Team Canada for the biennial American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) youth world cup.

Kendyl Smith was virtually born with a squash racquet in her hand. The 13-year-old from Halfmoon Bay remembers going to tournaments when she was young. In fact, according to her father Murray, he took Kendyl to tournaments when she was still a baby.

The Sunshine Coast Skating Club will be well represented at the provincial championships next month.

In the surrounding open canopy of mixed old growth yellow cedar, mountain hemlock and silver fir, and looking much like a giant bonsai forest of wind-tortured shapes that open into sweeping vistas of Georgia Strait are many kilometres of beautifully

This week the IGA Blazers showed they were no flash in the pan and held on to their top spot in the women's league with a 4-2 win over Marshall Mayhem.

Spring break will be all about soccer and sightseeing for a pair of Coast soccer players.

Creeker David Barnum is gearing up to compete on the world triathlon stage.