Local Sports

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.

A group of hoop stars from Chatelech and Elphin-stone Secondary Schools are in Pitt Meadows this week for an intensive summer basketball camp. On Sunday, eight dedicated players from the Coast left for Pitt Meadows.

A large contingent of athletes from the Sunshine Coast came home last week with great results from the World Masters Games in Edmonton. The event was held July 22 to 31.

A new standard has been set for drag racing on the Sunshine Coast. Eric Krume from Castle-rock, Wash. set the new record at Sunday's Tremors on the Tarmac event sponsored by the Sunshine Coast Drag Racing Association (SCDRA).

The Gibsons Bantam A All-stars went 6-0 in Mission last weekend, winning the 2005 provincial championship. A total of 10 teams battled it out in the scorching hot Fraser Valley for four days. First up on day one of the tournament was Duncan.

There will be some familiar faces taking to the ice in a few weeks at the Sunshine Coast Arena. Gibsons' native Brad Wingfield will be the lead instructor at the second annual Sunshine Coast Summer Hockey School. The school runs from Aug. 22 to 28.