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As a figure skater, Justin Hampole strives for perfection. He tries to get everything about his movements on the ice precise and perform each element technically correct, sometimes obsessing about even the tiniest mistakes.

Nobody could accuse the Prince George junior bantam Axemen of having a one-dimensional offence.

They had just nine players on their roster and were competing against the largest high schools in the province. So when the Kelly Road Roadrunners won the 1986 B.C. championship in senior boys volleyball, they accomplished something truly remarkable.

If the Medicine Hat Tigers were looking for any reassurance they are one of the top teams in the Western Hockey League, they got what they were after Wednesday night at CN Centre.

The top-seeded PGSS Polars and second-ranked College Heights Cougars will fight for the junior varsity P.G. Bowl tonight at Masich Place Stadium. The two high school football teams will be on the field at 7 p.m.

A pair of division leaders will do battle tonight when the Prince George Cougars host the Medicine Hat Tigers. The Cougars (13-2-2-0, 28 points) hold top spot in the Western Hockey League's B.C.

The College Heights Cougars pushed a perennial power to the limit but settled for silver medals at the TRU Howler Invitational senior boys volleyball tournament.

The Calgary Hitmen snapped the Prince George Cougars' string of road game perfection Saturday night in Calgary.

It took them two games and 113 shots but the Prince George Spruce Kings finally figured out how to stop the Coquitlam Express.

The Duchess Park Condors are going to the P.G. Bowl. Colburn Pearce made sure the Condors will play for the B.C.