Local Sports

Another baseball season is in the books for the North Shore Twins. By all accounts it was a successful season for the Twins, whose line-up featured four players from the Sunshine Coast.

The SunCoast Racquet Club held the fourth annual Loretta Copping Memorial Tournament on Aug. 27 to remember one of their late members with an exciting round robin. Play began at the Hackett Park public courts, with everyone playing two sets.

With a new coach arriving from Poland in mid-October, the Sunshine Coast Skating Club had to get creative in order to get the 2005/06 season off to an exciting start.

The Pacific Blades Speed Skating Club launched their second season on the Coast with a two-day mini camp last weekend.

On The Edge (OTE) Race Club was tearing it up at the B.C. Cup Finals last weekend Aug. 28 and 29 at Mt. Washington. The Coast was well represented with over 40 people including 19 racers at the event.

The second annual Sunshine Coast Summer Hockey School was bigger and better this year.

Rep soccer players were getting prepared for the upcoming season this week with a high-level skills camp.

While others were off enjoying the last few days of summer vacation, close to 100 kids in grades 6 to 12 were indoors this week working on their sets and spikes.

The Lighthouse Pub Mariners are the kings of fastpitch for 2005. The Mariners bested the Inlet Raiders in two games in the best-of-three final this week to reclaim the season championship.

Years of hard work and sacrifice are starting to pay off for Jenna Nestman. The former Elphinstone Secondary School track and field star is now making her mark on the national stage.