Local Sports

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.

When only 14 boys signed up to play ball in the Spruce City Minor Boys Fastball Association, that created a bit of a problem for Prince George Timberwolves midget team coaches Mitch Hogh and Richard Boomhower.

Keanan Scott no longer thinks about the day he finally catches up to his older brother Dagan racing his BMX bike.

The Prince George Cougars have added a dash of Swedish flair to their lineup. In Tuesday's Canadian Hockey League import draft, the Cougars selected forward Axel Jonsson-Fjallby, an 18-year-old product of Stockholm.

Chris Arronge has had near-perfect days at the track before, like he did on Saturday at PGARA Speedway, and it never gets old. It started in qualifying when he got around the three-eighths mile track in 18.

The challenge of racing 715 kilometres in a canoe is not just the physical strain of paddling on a stretch of river that's about the same distance as traveling from Prince George to Prince Rupert.

Rick Pattie says he's 99 per cent certain the World Baseball Challenge international tournament is returning to Citizen Field this August.