Local Sports

The fastest weekend of the summer starts tonight (Friday) in downtown Sechelt. The 10th annual Sleepy Hollow Rod Run, presented by the Coasters Car Club, will feature more than 300 cars. The Rod Run starts at Hackett Park at approximately 7 p.m.

Gibsons' Ryan Dempster and the Chicago Cubs have a flair for the dramatic lately. Last weekend, the Cubs were in the spotlight with two games against the St. Louis Cardinals on national television in the U.S.

A new course for the third annual Sea Cavalcade Mile proved to be a fast one, with Richmond's Ryan Hayden setting a new event record, clocking a blazing 4:01.

Youth soccer players got a chance to rub shoulders with some of the best players in the province this week. Drew Ferguson brought his Fergie's Soccer School to Gibsons this week.

Halfmoon Bay's Blake Mithrush qualified for the national amateur championships after an 18th place finish last week in Victoria. Mithrush fired a four-round total of 295, finishing in a tie for 18th place. The top 23 finishers from the B.C.

Close to 80 kids beat the summer heat inside a school gym the past two weeks at the 12th annual Sunshine Coast basketball camp.

Racers came from as far as Montreal, Wisconsin and Ireland to compete in the Mind Over Mountain Adventure Race (MOMAR) last weekend in Sechelt.

Mike Renney, head coach of the Simon Fraser University Clan (SFU) and former national team coach, was in Sechelt this week working with young softball players.

The weather cooperated providing great conditions for last weekend's seventh annual International Howe Sound Outrigger Races.

An up and coming female rugby player from Gibsons cut her teeth on the weekend at the Japan Cup in Vancouver.