Local Sports

Men and women were back on the pitch last weekend after six weeks off, and not quite up to game speed, waddling a bit like Christmas turkeys.

The Elphi Cougars are set for a North Shore title run. The Cougars won their last two league games this week to finish with a 6-1 record.

The Rockridge Ravens may want to look for a permanent residence on the Sunshine Coast. For the second week in a row, the Ravens put on an impressive showing, winning the senior boys' basketball tournament hosted by the Elphi Cougars.

The Rockridge Ravens from North Vancouver ruined the party last Saturday night at Chat Secondary. The Ravens knocked off the Chat senior boys 70-51 in the final of the annual Open Waters Invitational. Chat had won the previous two years.

After a thrilling double overtime 48-46 loss against Sentinel Secondary of West Vancouver Jan. 9, the Chatelech bantam boys' basketball team won both games of a Jan. 11 double-header at Chat.

Former Sunshine Coast soccer player Will Gye picked up national soccer honours recently. Gye won a gold medal helping the Douglas College Royals to the National Collegiate soccer title.

The 2006 Vancouver Sun Run, Canada's largest 10 km running event, will be held on Sunday, April 23. A clinic, co-ordinated by SportMedBC, is currently being offered by the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) parks and recreation division.

Two Sunshine Coast hockey players were recently selected to represent their zone at the B.C. Hockey Association's Best Ever Program of Excellence.

Elphinstone's senior girls' basketball team dominated the competition at Chatelech's annual Eagle Invitational Tournament last weekend. Elphi demolished Cariboo Hill 57-12 in their first game and then annihilated King George 59-7.

The Peewee Rep Blues came home with third place from a holiday tournament in Powell River. The Blues didn't start out well, losing to Powell River and New Westminster on the opening day of the tournament Dec. 29.