Local Sports

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.

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.

The sharpest-shooting four on the floor were Elmer Braun, John Heibert, Anne Heibert and Maureen Braun.

Four Prince George players skated to gold at B.C. Hockey high performance tournaments on the weekend.

UNBC about to discover its Canada West fate