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Two products of the Gibsons Minor Ball Association (GMBA) are following in the footsteps of Gibsons Ryan Dempster. Adam Pattison, a right-handed pitcher, and catcher Dave Moran are suiting up this year with the North Shore Twins senior baseball team.

The bar has been raised at the April Fool's Run. Dodging rain clouds and wet roads, Kenyan Abraham Kosgei, now living in Hamilton, Ont. captured the 27th running of the Gibsons to Sechelt half marathon on Sunday.

A classic series ended in thrilling fashion on Friday night at the Sunshine Coast Arena. The Midway Power/ Grasshopper Pub Hitmen hoisted the Men's A-division hockey title after a 2-1 shootout win in game four of their series with the Inlet Raiders.

The U16 Blaze are now ranked fifth in the province after capturing the Prince George Super Series tournament last weekend.

Spring training is over - let the real games begin. That's the sentiment from Gibsons Ryan Dempster as he and the Chicago Cubs close out their spring training schedule in Mesa, Ariz. this weekend.

A great season ended on a sour note for Sechelt's David Arduin. Arduin and the Campbell River Storm lost the best-of-three Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League (VIJHL) championship series to the Victoria Cougars last weekend.

If the first two games of the men's A-division hockey final are any indication, hockey fans are guaranteed some excitement this weekend.

The top 50 high school mountain bikers in the province, many of them from the Sunshine Coast and the North Shore, were in Squamish last weekend to take part in a special two-day riding camp with several Canadian national team members.

The Inlet Raiders and Midway Power/Grasshopper Pub Hitmen will battle for the men's A-division title after their respective first round series last week.

The year-end men's soccer tournament took place last weekend, as the eight teams scrambled through the muck at rain-soaked Ted Dixon Memorial Park.