Local Sports

More than 440 runners have now signed up for the 29th Sunshine Coast April Fool's Run, set for Sunday, April 2. Nearly 60 of those are on relay teams, while the rest will runthe entire 13.1 miles from Gibsons to Sechelt.

There will be a new champion crowned this year in the men's A-division hockey league.The Suncoast Flyers and Inlet Raiders will meet in the championship final starting April 1 after both teams swept their first round series 2-0.

In the last week of regular season play, the Xenichen Ya Yas were the only team to score more than a single goal, as the squads seem to be saving their strikes for the upcoming playoffs.

The Sunshine Coast Volleyball Club (SCVC) Smash U16 girls team played their first tournament of the season on March 11 in Richmond. Coaches Eric Pinfold and Jason Jenkins were pleased with the result.

A couple of former minor hockey players from the Coast are still alive in the post season with their respective junior teams.

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.