Local Sports

Players and coaches from the Sunshine Coast were treated to tips from some of Canada's best last weekend. Brothers Park was the setting for the annual Big League Experience baseball camp, organized by the Gibsons Minor Baseball Association (GMBA).

On a spectacular sunny spring day, record numbers of runners and walkers took over downtown Vancouver in the Sun Run 10k. This was the first time in its 22-year history that the race has surpassed 50,000.

Twenty seconds - that's how close Gibsons Aaron Portman came to hoisting the Keystone Cup Sunday night. The Campbell River Storm played host to the 2006 Keystone Cup, the Western Canadian Junior B championship last week.

Sechelt's Julia Budd returns to the squared circle next Friday night in Vancouver. A world championship kickboxing event is slated for the PNE Agrodome with a full card of action.

Mountain bike riders from Chat and Elphi are off to strong starts in the 2006 high school season. So far two events have been held on the North Shore. Race three was held Wednesday in Squamish.

The Coast Thunder ran into stiff competition last weekend in North Vancouver. Hoping for a top five finish, things didn't materialize for the Thunder and they finished 10th at the 2006 club volleyball provincials in North Vancouver.

The eight men's teams representing the Coast from Gibsons to Pender Harbour met last weekend in Gibsons for their season finale.

The Inlet Raiders captured the men's A-division title with a 4-1 win over the Suncoast Flyers last Friday night. After dropping the first game of the series, the Raiders stormed back to win the next three, capturing the series 3-1.

Katrina Driver of Vancouver smashed the women's course record by three minutes at the 29th annual Sunshine Coast April Fool's Run on Sunday, April 2, presented by Coast Cable Communications Ltd.

The Sunshine Coast Skating Club recently returned triumphant from the North Shore International competition held in North Vancouver this month. The team of 20 brought home 15 awards.