Local Sports

They were rewarded at the last possible moment. Yes, the payoff was late in arriving.

From the opening tip-off, the Duchess Park Condors put the D.P. Todd Trojans in a hole. Forced to play catch-up, the Trojans never did get all the way back.

When Prince George hosted the Canadian women's curling championship in 2000, Blaine de Jager had the chance to step onto the ice as a fan. This weekend she'll be back at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts as a competitor.

Thomas Speirs now knows, officially, who he'll face in his first professional fight. Speirs, a 22-year-old from the Spruce Capital Boxing Club, will trade punches with Tyler 'The Tornado' Lee during a March 2 card at the Roll-A-Dome.

The Toronto Blue Jays are coming to Prince George for spring training.

For the second year in a row, the Cedars Christian School Eagles claimed the city championship in senior girls high school basketball. To do it, they had to fight off a determined PGSS Polars team Wednesday night at the Northern Sport Centre.

In the Mainland Division of the B.C. Hockey League, the Prince George Spruce Kings have a comfortable lead on the Langley Rivermen. They want to increase the gap. The Spruce Kings and Rivermen will face off tonight at the Coliseum (7 p.m.

Fresh off an appearance at worlds, Emily Dickson was impossible to beat at a B.C. Cup biathlon race in West Kelowna on the weekend. Dickson, who trains with the Caledonia Nordic Ski Club, was a double gold-medalist at the provincial meet.

A minor chink was put into the stellar seasons of the senior girls basketball teams from PGSS and Cedars Christian School by the Duchess Park Condors.

The Fortwood Homes Cougars had a chance for gold but settled for silver in heartbreaking fashion. The Cougars, the city's peewee Tier 4 rep hockey team, fell 4-3 to Chetwynd in Sunday's championship game of a Mackenzie tournament.