Local Sports

It probably wasn't what their teachers had in mind for the first mountain bike course designed by four students from Capilano College's mountain bike operations (MBO) program.

The U13 Predators took on North Vancouver Burrards at Cliff Gilker Park last weekend. Predators controlled the early part of the game and had a number of good chances.

The 30-year wait is finally over for the UBC Thunderbirds women's volleyball team. The T-Birds, featuring Kyla Richey and Natalie Eades from Roberts Creek, saw an amazing playoff run come to a close last Saturday night in Fredericton, N.B.

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