Local Sports

The Sunshine Coast Cycling Club (SCC) has selected their 2008 core team and they're out to make a name for themselves in the racing circuit again this year.

In the follow-up game to the victory by the Chatelech Secondary School junior boys last Monday night, the Chat Grade 8 boys defeated their counterparts from Elphinstone 36-26 on Tuesday, Jan. 22.

Shaun Stephens-Whale has lofty expectations for this year's Empire State Building run-up. The Roberts Creek runner heads to New York tomorrow (Saturday) to begin preparations for the annual event set for Tuesday, Feb. 5, in the Big Apple.

Chad Ketting hopes the hard work he puts in now will pay off down the road in the Western Hockey League (WHL) - and maybe one day in the pros. The goaltender from Halfmoon Bay is playing with the Vancouver Northwest Giants in the B.C.

The Kunamatatas started off 2008 on the right boot with a well played 4-2 victory last weekend. The K-team started strong, with Simon Gaiga getting an early lead.

Elphinstone Secondary School senior boys coach Mike Sopow called his Grade 11 players out after a disappointing third place finish in the Cougar Classic last weekend, telling the boys that they needed to step up, be aggressive and attack the hoop, an

Editor's note: This is part two of an exclusive one-on-one interview with Chicago Cubs pitcher and Gibsons native Ryan Dempster conducted on Tuesday, Jan. 8, while Dempster was home for a post-Christmas visit with family and friends.

Coming off his first trip to the post-season, Gibsons' Ryan Dempster says he has some unfinished business.

The Bantam Rep Blues continued to roll right along, picking up a pair of wins to start the second half of their season. On Saturday, the Blues scored less than two minutes into the game and never looked back in an impressive 7-2 romp over Chilliwack.

Elphinstone, Chatelech and Pender Harbour Secondary Schools finished third, fourth and fifth respectively at the 2008 Cougar Classic senior boys basketball tournament last weekend in Gibsons.