Local Sports

Heading into the Youth Bowling Canada national championship tournament, Jeff Strong was hoping to avoid a last-place finish. He did. In a big way.

Ian Graham started his stock car season in style. Graham, from Harrison Hot Springs, was quickest in qualifying and later powered to the checkered flag in the 100-lap main event of Saturday's ARCA OK Tire Challenge Series race in Vernon.

Junior A hockey in Quesnel is on the verge of extinction. On Saturday, the ownership group of the Quesnel Millionaires accepted an offer from the Chiefs Development Group to relocate to Chilliwack for the 2011-12 B.C. Hockey League season.

Heading into the Youth Bowling Canada national championship tournament, Jeff Strong was hoping to avoid a last-place finish. He did. In a big way.

Track and field camp receives positive reviews

UNBC soccer coach Sonny Pawar is prepared to meet the challenge. Last week, the Canada West Universities Athletic Association deferred for one month a decision on UNBC's membership application.

His UNBC Northern Timberwolves women's soccer team didn't win a game at the provincial college level last season. But coach Mato Mikic completely supports the plan to enter the Canada West Universities Athletic Association in 2012.

The Shooters Pub Devils applied the heat in a pair of weekend games in the Prince George Senior Lacrosse Association.

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.