Local Sports

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.

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.