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Last year, they limped out of the playoffs bruised and battered, having defaulted, unable to gather enough able bodies to play the final game of the Prince George Senior Lacrosse Association playoffs.

Thatcher Demko is pencilled in as the Vancouver Canucks' goaltender of the future. Former Powell River Kings star, Prince George's Michael Garteig, wants to scratch him out and write in his own name atop that crease prospects depth chart.

They didn't win the game. In fact, most of their games at the provincial boys under-18 softball championship last weekend in Surrey ended in blowout losses.

Brothers Pat and Tim Turner thought they did everything they could to physically prepare themselves to race 715 kilometres in a canoe on the Yukon River and finish in 2 1/2 days.

Four hours racing in a canoe would be a daunting task for most people. Pat Turner is not like most people.

After manhandling the Quesnel Crossfire 16-3 in the opening game of the Prince George Senior Lacrosse Association playoffs, the two-time defending champion Westwood Pub Devils are one win away from their third straight trip to the final.

For the first time in its 70-year history, a woman was chosen as manager for a team in Motocross Des Nations, which will be held in Maggiorra, Italy in September.

The stakes were high July 24, 2009 on a warm Prince George night. Canada was playing a star-studded Team USA in a first-versus-second playoff for the right to play in the final of the World Baseball Challenge.

Jamie Huber fills a need for the Prince George Spruce Kings - generating offence. The Kings announced the acquisition of Huber on Wednesday. The 19-year-old forward joins the local B.C.

Prince George will be a new stop on the B.C. Junior Curling Tour this coming season. The tour, entering its second year of operation, will hold an event Oct. 7-9 at the Prince George Golf and Curling Club.