Local Sports

Local riders were in sunny Summerland during the Victoria Day long weekend attending the first of six B.C. Cup mountain bike events. Fortunately, after heavy rains Saturday night, the skies cleared for Sunday and the main event.

For a few sunny hours last Sunday, Pender Harbour dropped its sleepy backwater status and became a frenzied hub of extreme athletics.

This year's Howe Sound Outrigger Race will have an Asian influence after a women's team from Hong Kong secured an entry this week. The team representing the Hong Kong Outrigger Club will compete in the women's open event.

Halfmoon Bay's Madison Lamb will spend the summer in Toronto trying to give back a little something to the sport she loves. Lamb has been invited by Team Canada coach Justine Siegel to be a guest coach for three weeks at a clinic in Toronto.

The Calgary Flames might be on fire in the Stanley Cup playoffs, but a volleyball team from the Coast is also on a hot streak of their own as they head to "Cow Town" this weekend.

Mother Nature provided fine weather and 20 teams provided some lovely football (soccer to the Philistines) at last weekend's Xenichen Ya Yas' seven-a-side tournament.

With 32 teams registered for the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) Relay For Life, close to 400 people will be walking, running and jogging through the night in support of the Canadian Cancer Society.

The Elphi golf team is off to the AA zone finals following a second-place showing at the division playoffs. Elphi finished with a score of 333, while St.

Two years of scrapes, bruises, stitches and sweat have all been worth it for Davis Bay's Taylor Hunt. The 14-year-old is starting to turn heads in the competitive motocross circuit.

What started out as a promising beginning to another Super Bike racing season for Gibsons' Laurence Owen has ended with a permanent pit stop.