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Wear green, or wear gold. Starving students and others who pick the right colour will receive a payoff that will go straight to their stomachs.

Jag Seehra took two huge, winning steps, in the Road to Glory Tournament Series. Seehra, from Prince George's Inner City Boxing Club, punched his way to a pair of impressive victories in Kelowna on the weekend.

The Cariboo Cougars weren't interested in another tension-filled game. So, Sunday at Kin 1, they fired four first-period goals against the North Island Silvertips and eventually recorded a 7-2 win in a B.C. Hockey Major Midget League contest.

Midget Cougars post two ties vs. Kamloops

The PGSS Polars are developing into a power in junior girls volleyball. Two weekends ago, the Polars were golden at their own tournament.

The opponent will be the same. The UNBC Northern Timberwolves are confident the result can be different. For the second year in a row, the UNBC men's soccer team will battle the Capilano University Blues in a first-round playoff match-up. The two B.

If this was a horse race, a bet on Rob McDougall would not have resulted in large payoff. By a country mile, the D.P. Todd Grade 12 student was the favourite Saturday in the 6.

The empty seats still outnumber full ones three to one in CN Centre, but that could change once the secret's out.

Charles Inglis was like a kid who had just won a trip to Disneyland. His whoops and hollers of delight as he made his way to the Prince George Cougars dressing room are a sign of the times now in Cougarville. It's becoming a fun place to be again.

Long before they became Western Hockey League scoring stars, Brett Connolly and Ryan Howse were minor hockey teammates in Prince George. Teammates, yes. Linemates, no.