Local Sports

In his last year of midget baseball eligibility, Cory Bukauskas made the choice to drop down to double-A from the triple-A ranks. He's taken his talent for pitching and coming up with clutch hits to the Campbell River Tyees.

Mikey Schwab knows what it's like to play a provincial baseball championship tournament at home, but he's one of only three Prince George Lomak midget Knights ever to have had such a hometown experience.

Nothing went right for the B.C. Lenny's Selects during their Wednesday morning game at the U21 Men's Canadian Fastpitch Championship. On the field in Tavistock, Ont., the Selects suffered an 11-0 drubbing at the hands of the Irma Junior Tigers.

The Ramada Inn is the new title sponsor of the World Baseball Challenge, Aug. 12-20 at Citizen Field.

Avery Movold of the Prince George Barracudas swim club stroked to four top-10 finishes at the Canadian age group championships in Calgary on the weekend.

In consecutive games, the Prince George Knights had the chance to hang losses on the Ridge Meadows Royals. But, both times, the local bantam double-A baseball team couldn't hold last-inning leads and ended up missing the playoffs at the Baseball B.C.

Successfully hosting a five-division, 77-team tournament is no easy feat. Despite the challenges involved in running such a beast of an event, the Canadian Native Fastball Championships got high marks across the board.

The Prince George Cougars' former head coach has a new hockey home. Mark Holick has been hired by HC Pustertal, the Italian team announced Sunday. "Welcome to Bruneck," HC Pustertal Tweeted Sunday.

The new B.C. Hockey League season is less than two months away and the Prince George Spruce Kings are making moves.

The Prince George Grays senior baseball team is in Nanaimo this weekend chasing down provincial gold. The Grays are entered in the 10-team PWB senior provincial championship, hosted by the Nanaimo Coal Miners.