Local Sports

The Elphi wrestling team has just completed its most successful season in school history. Six wrestlers picked up medals at the AA provincial championships in Kamloops recently, bringing an end to a season for the ages.

Competitive bodybuilding is taking shape on the Coast. Last November, Coast Reporter introduced readers to Katie Duncan, a local bodybuilding competitor who had just returned with great results from her first professional competition.

Athletes from the Sechelt Indian Band (SIB) are searching for gold in Colorado this July. A total of 21 soccer players, ranging in age from 13 to 18 have been selected to be a part of Team B.C. for the 2006 North American Indigenous Games (NAIG).

The first round playoff match ups are set for the men's A-division hockey league. When the best of three semifinal round gets underway on Tuesday, first place Inlet Raiders will play the fourth place Roberts Creek Rangers.

The Midget House C1 squad captured their second straight playoff banner Saturday night at the Sunshine Coast Arena - and they beat a familiar foe to do it.

While the 2006 Olympic Winter Games wrapped up in Italy last Sunday, athletes were putting the wraps on a successful winter games right here in B.C. The 2006 B.C. Winter Games were held Feb. 23 to 26 in the greater Trail area.

The playoffs are almost here for the men's A-division hockey league. The regular season ends on March 7 with the first round of the playoffs set to start March 14.

A pair of disabled paddlers are preparing for an adventure of a lifetime.

Sechelt's Nick Muryn hopes hours spent in the Sechelt skatepark pay off in Toronto next month. The Grade 12 Chat student is off to Ontario for a national BMX competition March 3 to 5. The event is easily the biggest competition in Canada.

The Inlet Raiders have yet to find the winning formula to beat the North Vancouver Canadians. But at least this year's contest was closer. The Canadians edged the Raiders 6-4 in an entertaining contest last Saturday night at the Sunshine Coast Arena.