Local Sports

Jordan Botel had an MVP season as a rookie with the Mount Allison Mounties and next month he'll have the opportunity to impress Canadian Football League scouts and personnel.

Five members of the Prince George bantam female Cougars were a part of the championship winning Team North at the under-16 B.C. Cup, held in Duncan.

There was 16 teams in the hunt for the 2013 floor curling championship during the two-day event at the Elder Citizens Centre last week, with Agassiz's Henk Vanderaadt skipping his team to victory.

Before embarking on their annual Run for Rural Medicine on Sunday, the Prince George Road Runners Club took 26 seconds of silence to remember the victims in last week's Boston Marathon bombing.

Among the more than 47,000 runners who took part in Sunday's Sun Run in Vancouver were a trio of athletes from Vanderhoof.

Four Prince George basketball players selected to play in the annual B.C. boys and girls high school basketball all-star games Sunday at the Langley Events Centre.

Fort St. James forward Dallas Goodwin celebrated a championship Sunday after his Flyers defeated the Canucks in the final game of the 2013 male under-16 B.C. Cup, earning a 4-3 shootout win at the Shaw Centre in Salmon Arm.

Brad Rihela has left the Prince George Spruce Kings as he graduates from assistant to head coach.

Shelby Jansen sprinted to the finish line to capture the 400m dash title on the weekend at the third annual Battle of the Borders high school track and field meet in Kamloops.

Call them the Fab Five of Prince George. The UNBC Timberwolves women's soccer team has received commitments from five members of the PGYSA under-18 Kodiaks team to join the T-wolves for the 2013 CIS season.