Local Sports

Danger Bay 5 last weekend in Pender Harbour was a complete and utter success.With over 130 racers this year it not only broke records, but also created a great show for spectators as well as the competitive downhill racers that joined in on the fun.

The Suncoast Breakers travelled to Whistler in late April to participate in the Whistler Spring Summit hockey tournament 35-and-over division. They played .500 hockey in the round robin portion, winning one, tying one and losing the other.

When Wendy Cooney was a girl growing up in Port Alberni, she always thought she had the ability to be a first-rate quarter horse rider. However, because of the expense of the sport, she had to wait 20 years to find out just how good she could be.

Charlene SanJenko, fitness entrepreneur and owner of Coast of Sunshine Fitness in Gibsons, recently competed in the Western Canadian Bodybuilding and Fitness championships in Kelowna.

Organizers are tabbing last weekend's Brodie Rat Race as the best one yet. Rider entries were close to 500 for the two-day event along the trails in Roberts Creek. The fifth annual event started Saturday with an intense cross-country race.

Pender Harbour's Joe Antilla is mapping out his hockey future. Last Thursday, Joe was drafted in round four with the 76th pick by the Kootenay Ice in the Western Hockey League (WHL) Bantam Draft.

Athletes and coaches got a chance to rub shoulders with some of the best female softball players in the country last weekend.

On Saturday, April 30, cyclists from On The Edge Race Club pre-rode the race course of the Cow Trail Classic cross-country mountain bike race in Merritt. None of them had ever seen the trails before.

Pender Harbour is the place to be this May long weekend. Coastlongboarding.com presents Attack of Danger Bay V.

Three paddlers from the Sunshine Coast recently returned from New Zealand with a lifetime of memories and a hunger for future competition. Din Ruttelynck, Sarah Doherty and Donna Har-rison represented Canada at the 2006 World Sprint Races in March.