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Jag Seehra admitted he had chills running down his spine as he walked into the ring to a thunderous ovation. The hometown crowd did what it could to fire up the 23-year-old Inner City Boxing Club member but it wasn't enough to ice Nick Jefferson.

Fifty-nine-year-old Bob Pegues spent six months training for a fight that lasted all of three minutes.

Hector Rendon was bigger and stronger than Kenny Lally and had him on the run for much of his fight Saturday at the Night of the Champions boxing card. But it was like trying to catch a grasshopper without a net.

After seven months of outdoor soccer inactivity, the guys of the North Cariboo Senior Soccer League will lace up their cleats this weekend to break the ice on the new season.

The junior girls from Black Diamond Lanes rolled to gold last week in the Lower Mainland against competition from across Canada at the Youth Bowling five-pin Championship.

Olympic rower David Calder said Prince George athletes are likely to experience mixed emotions about having the 2015 Canada Winter Games in their backyard.

To the Point

It was a 1-2 punch for Jarvis Thompson at the 30th annual Canadian Kyokushin Karate Championship last weekend in Vancouver.

To the Point

Canadian Olympian David Calder has discovered navigating the waves of parenthood has many of the same emotional highs and lows he experienced as a high-performance athlete.