Local Sports

Last weekend had a couple of big upsets in the men's and women's leagues, as teams prepare for the anything-can-happen free-for-alls that are the playoff weekends.

The Midget Rep Blues failed to qualify for the provincials last weekend in Aldergrove - but it wasn't for lack of heart or effort. The Blues lost two, one-goal games against higher-ranked teams.

Former Chatelech Eagle Tanya deVries is shining with another group of Eagles. Tanya, a Grade 11 forward with Carson Graham, is off to the AAA senior girls' provincial basketball championships March 14 to 17 at Capilano College in North Vancouver.

The Chatelech Eagles ended their third season on the slopes on a bit of a sour note Feb. 14.

With the playoffs only a few weeks away, the top teams in the men's and women's leagues are jockeying for position. At Brothers Park, old contending rivals Marshall Mayhem and Xenichen Ya Yas faced off, with the 3-1 win going to Mayhem.

A group of 20 curlers ended a two-week tour of Canada at the Gibsons Curling Club last Friday.

David Arduin celebrated his 20th birthday with a homecoming skate on the ice surface where it all started for him. Arduin, joined by his Trail Smoke Eaters teammates, held a public practice at the Sunshine Coast Arena last Friday afternoon.

Seven wrestlers from Elphinstone Secondary School qualified for the provincial finals next week in Surrey.

The Chatelech Eagles juvenile boys are red hot. Winners of three straight, the Eagles are riding high as they head into their first playoff game Feb. 19 in North Vancouver against a yet to be determined opponent.

Shaun Stephens-Whale from Roberts Creek got a taste for New York and has an appetite for more. Shaun finished 13th overall at the Empire State Building Run Up Feb. 6. He feels he could have put in a better time."I could have done better.