Local Sports

Gibsons Ryan Dempster will be pitching in the friendly confines of Wrigley Field this season. Dempster signed a one-year deal with a club option for 2005 with the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday.

For the second time in a week, the Chatelech Eagles senior boys' basketball team had all the right answers against the Howe Sound Sounders.

The Inlet Raiders continued their winning ways last week with a pair of wins in men's A-division hockey action. The Raiders knocked off the Rangers 4-1 on Jan.

The Chatelech senior boys continued their winning ways on Monday night with a 68-54 home win over the Howe Sound Secondary School Sounders in high school hoops action.

All runners on the Sunshine Coast who are thinking of running the April Fool's Run on March 28, are invited to sign up for the inaugural April Fool's half marathon training clinic in preparation for the event.

Fourteen-year-old Shaun Stephens-Whale of Roberts Creek has made his New Year's resolution - he's in training to scale 739 stairs on Feb. 8.

The Sunshine Coast RCMP has hockey bragging rights after edging the Sechelt Fire Department 11-10 in the Challenge of the Badges Charity hockey game Dec. 27.

The Gibsons Curling Club hosted some of the top female curlers in the Lower Mainland last weekend. Gibsons hosted this year's second chance provincial qualifier.

The Chatelech senior boys' basketball team won its third straight game on Thursday night at home, topping the Rockridge Ravens 77-63.