Local Sports

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.

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.