Local Sports

More than 40 years after taking his first volunteer coaching job, Pierre Beaudry has been honoured with a special award for lifetime achievement in coaching. The newly-created award from the PacificSport Northern B.C.

Sunday's results from the Prince George Cycling Club's 69 kilometre Northern Sport and Cycle road race. Men 1. Kris Yip 1:49.24 2. Matt Thomson 1:49.25 3. Rob Vogt 1:49.27 4. Dan Bedard 1:49.29 5. Neil Hodgson 1:52.15 6. Dave Murguly 1:53.11 7.

After posting a 2-1-1 record in round-robin play, the R.H. Jones Mechanical Panthers, an under-14 team from the Prince George Minor Girls Softball peewee development group, secured the bronze medal at a Summerland tournament last weekend.

Thanks to some new players and greater focus on success, the Prince George Vixens women's rugby team is heading into this season with higher expectations.

The only way for the Prince George Vixens to improve and eventually compete with the top women's rugby teams from the Lower Mainland is to get the girls interested in the sport at a young age, says Marina Crick.

Derek Boogaard was acquired by the Prince George Cougars in a WHL trade from the Regina Pats in 1999. He played with the Cougars until the 2002 season when he was traded to the Medicine Hat Tigers where he finished his junior hockey career.

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.