Local Sports

In Kenny Lally's world, all roads lead to London 2012. The local boxer advanced one step closer to next summer's Olympic Games on Friday night. And he did it by beating one of England's elite punchers.

Colin Carson is back on the Team Canada trail. Carson, a 19-year-old setter from Prince George, will try out for Volleyball Canada's junior national team, May 17 to 21 in Gatineau, Que.

Colin Carson is back on the Team Canada trail. Carson, a 19-year-old setter from Prince George, will try out for Volleyball Canada's junior national team, May 17 to 21 in Gatineau, Que.

Years before snowboarding became an Olympic sport, Malle Ricker dreamed of becoming a five-ring champion.

The rules of the game have suddenly changed for UNBC athletics, but the school's bid to join the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) is still very much alive.

Jordan Harris was the 10th overall pick in Thursday's WHL bantam draft, but to the Prince George Cougars, he's No. 1. The Cougars made Harris, a six-foot-one, 170-pound defenceman, their top choice at the draft table in Calgary.

Coming from the dark of his day job in a coal mine to the glare of the spotlight in the mixed marts arts cage in Dawson Creek, it didn't Dan Shenk long to turn out the lights on Kris Miskenack.

Jag Seehra called it the worst beating he's ever taken as a boxer. Seehra's physical pain was eclipsed by the emotional sting of his elimination from the Pan-American Games qualifying tournament in Quito, Ecuador.

The Prince George Minor Hockey Association has reversed a decision to remove body checking from its midget club division. Body checking was reinstated for the 2011-12 season during a meeting of the PGMHA executive on Monday night.

Local legs will power the UNBC Northern Timberwolves women's soccer team next season. On Tuesday, UNBC head coach Mato Mikic revealed he has received commitments from seven recruits, six of them from Prince George and one from Quesnel.