Local Sports

Add Josh Connolly to the list of hockey players out with post-concussion syndrome. "It's tough," said the B.C. Major Midget hockey player with the Prince George-based Cariboo Cougars.

The field for the 2012 Scotties BC Women's Curling championship hosted by the North Shore Winter Club from Jan. 23 to 29 is set.

Six members of the Cariboo Cougars were selected for the B.C. Major Midget League all-star game in Coquitlam at Planet Ice during the all-star festivities Jan. 14 and 15.

The Prince George WIC Bantam Female Rep Cougars played a pair of exhibition games on the weekend in Kelowna, returning home with a win and loss.

An old nemesis haunted the Cariboo Cougars once again on the weekend. The Cougars (14-7-3) dropped two hockey games to the visiting Vancouver NW Giants (15-3-5) at Kin 1, falling four points behind them in the battle for first place in the B.C.

A three games in three nights weekend road swing ended in a hard-fought 2-1 loss Sunday to the Surrey Eagles for the Prince George Spruce Kings.

After careful consideration and 27 months Len McNamara has found a new job. The former athletic director at the University of Northern British Columbia is the new executive director of the Prince George Youth Soccer Association.

Jesse Forsberg was in the spirit of giving Saturday night.

After a successful weekend in Beaverton, Oregon three members of the Barracudas Swim Club were selected to the 2012 US Youth Tour team, competing in Clearwater, Florida from Jan. 12 to 21.

For the second straight weekend Prince George Ray's Stucco under-19A ringette team captured gold. The Prince George girls won the Spirit of Winter tournament in Langley last weekend, a week after capturing the title in Houston.