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The Langley Rivermen beat the Prince George Spruce Kings 4-1 on Friday night in Langley. With the win, the Rivermen drew even in points with the Kings, who started the night in first place in the B.C. Hockey League's Mainland Division.

It was not a great day at the races for Sarah Beaudry n Ridnanun-Val Ridanna, Italy. Four missed targets in two shooting bouts in Friday's International Biathlon Union (IBU) Cup women's 7.

When the UNBC Timberwolves needed an energy boost to stop the bleeding against the Fraser Valley Cascades, Vova Pluzhnikov answered the call.

In a perfect world, the UNBC Timberwolves would have gone home from the gym Friday night at the Northern Sport Centre having pretty much sealed the playoff fate of the Fraser Valley Cascades.

The game got marked on Kody McDonald's calendar the day he joined the Prince Albert Raiders three weeks ago.

Sarah Beaudry is getting tuned for the Olympics. The 23-year-old from Prince George raced to a 23rd-place finish Thursday at the IBU Cup women's 15-kilometre individual event in Ridnaun-Val Ridanna, Italy. Beaudry finished 4:55.

The ability to dictate your own fate is always a good thing in sports.

As far as Adam Maglio is concerned, right winger Ethan de Jong is the B.C. Hockey League's junior A version of Patrice Bergeron.

The timing of the trades that brought them from the prairies of Saskatchewan to the rolling hills of Prince George could not have been better for Austin Crossley, Kjell Kjemhus and Rhett Rhinehart.

Last season they tasted playoffs for the first team in five years of playing university women's basketball. But that was just an appetizer for the UNBC Timberwolves.