Local Sports

Cuba or Chinese Taipei? It was too close to call as to which team would earn a ticket into Sunday's World Baseball Challenge championship game, with the teams tied 6-6 and going to extra innings when the Citizen press deadline arrived Friday night.

Brent Maguire is a sucker for punishment. The longer, more grueling the race, the better he likes it.

After an unplanned year leave of absence, he Prince George Tennis Open is back on the city sporting calendar. The two-day event starts today at 5 p.m.

Mark Berriau knows what he had do this weekend at Gold Pan Speedway in Quesnel. He's looking for the same kind of nuggets he filled his pockets with on the track last month in Prince George.

Team Canada needed somebody to stop the bleeding and Brandon Hunter jumped at his chance to pitch in the World Baseball Challenge. After all, it's not every day you get a chance to play for your country on home turf.

Baby dresses and weed whackers. For Team Cuba at the World Baseball Challenge, Prince George stores are a shopping bonanza.

The rain that's soaked the World Baseball Challenge this week finally won out Thursday night at Citizen Field.

Jasmine Sakawsky is still technically a rookie stock car driver, but she's proving she knows the fast way around the three-eighths mile oval track at PGARA Speedway.

The one hour rain delay only put off the inevitable for the Beijing Tigers.

Russill Mills held his breath, knowing one mistake could cost him the game and give the BX Pub Bandits one more life in the Prince George Senior Lacrosse Association championship series.