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Dave Wood is enjoying life outside the pressure-cooker. A year ago at this time, he was working full-throttle as head coach of Canada's national cross-country ski team in anticipation of the 2010 Winter Olympics.

The D.P. Todd Trojans, like so many other teams this season, had no answer for Ruth Hamblin.

The Prince George Spruce Kings did everything in their power to pull closer to a playoff position. But wins proved elusive in their last home weekend of the season and they didn't get much help on the out-of-town scoreboard.

Arthur Williams Citizen staff [email protected] Athletes braved strong winds to compete in the 2011 Prince George Iceman, Sunday. Patrick Turner topped the solo men's competition with a time of one hour, 48 minutes and 21 seconds.

SATURDAY BASKETBALL: College Heights Cougars senior girls tournament resumes at 9 a.m., College Heights secondary school. Semifinals at 9 and 10:45 a.m., final at 4:30 p.m. HOCKEY: BCHL -- Prince George Spruce Kings vs. Westside Warriors, 7 p.m.

Swimmer in Sunday’s 24th annual race a former world-record freestyler

With the Canadian vision-impaired curling national championship on the line, a B.C. team built exclusively with Prince George curlers led the six-time defending champions by a point with just three ends left.

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. -- The Prince George Cougars pounced on an unprepared Lethbridge Hurricanes team in a 7-2 victory Friday at the Enmax Centre.

Based in the northernmost outpost of the Western Hockey League, the Prince George Cougars are unavoidably road warriors, logging more highway kilometres than most of their opponents.

They were facing the business end of a double-barreled threat. They had to win both games. But rather than see their trip to the Canadian visually impaired curling championship come to a premature end, the Prince George rink that makes up Team B.C.