T-wolves open season in Calgary
The quest for a third consecutive playoff berth begins on Oct. 26.
That's the night the UNBC Timberwolves women's basketball team will open the 2018-19 Canada West season. The Timberwolves will be in Calgary to tip off against the Mount Royal University Cougars. The teams will also clash the next afternoon.
For the T-wolves, the doubleheader kicks off a 20-game regular schedule. The first home weekend for the team is Nov. 2-3 when the Winnipeg Wesmen pay a visit to the Northern Sport Centre. The Timberwolves will have payback on their minds, as Winnipeg is the team that knocked them out of the playoffs with an 82-65 victory last February.
The Canada West regular season stretches until Feb. 2, when the T-wolves will play the second half of a home doubleheader against the Lethbridge Pronghorns.
For the upcoming season, UNBC will have league all-stars Vasiliki Louka and Maria Mongomo back in uniform. Mongomo will be joined in the backcourt by newcomer Abby Gibb, a five-foot-eight point guard who will be in her fourth year of eligibility. Gibb, from Calgary, spent one season with the St. Mary's University Lightning of the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference and two with Canada West's Mount Royal.
Mountain bikers set for test
There will be some mountain madness at the Pidherny Recreation site on Sunday.
Pidherny will provide the backdrop for Rustchucker XC, a mountain bike race hosted by the P.G. Cycling Club. Some riders will tackle a 20-kilometre course that winds through some of Pidherny's best terrain, while others will take on a more friendly 7km loop.
Check-in starts at 9:15 a.m. and racing gets underway at 10.
Registration can be done online at pgcyclingclub.ca.
Canada Cup revival
Prince George's top judo athletes will be in Montreal next week for the Canada Cup International.
Judo Canada is resurrecting the Canada Cup after a 19-year absence. Competition will start on June 29 and go until July 1.
Local judokas who will make the trip to Montreal are Ioan Frizzell, Asher Young, Lochlan Young, Koen Heitman, Gabe Paterson, Brooke Corbett and Kimiko Kamstra - all of the Hart Judo Academy - and Prince George Judo Club members Sydney Edgson and Tami Goto. All will take part in a national training camp at the conclusion of the tournament.
