Local Sports

The West Kelowna Warriors battled to a 3-2 overtime victory against the Portage Terriers on Tuesday at the Western Canada Cup junior A hockey championship. On the ice in Estevan, Sask.

The Prince George Cougars will have the ninth overall selection in the Western Hockey League bantam draft, which happens Thursday in Calgary. The Cats haven't picked as low as ninth since 2011, when they chose defenceman Jordan Harris tenth overall.

Morgan Wiebe spent most of her day at the front of the pack. The 11-year-old member of the Prince George Track and Field Club won all four of her races at Saturday's Sub Zero, the first local meet of the season, at Masich Place Stadium.

Blake McIntosh outscored the M. Daniels Consulting Crossfire during a Monday night game in the Prince George Senior Lacrosse Association.

Urged on by a vocal crowd and thinking he just might have a junior national powerlifting record dead lift within reach, Liam Miller grabbed the bar and pulled with all his might to lock his knees in a standing position.

The Brooks Bandits raided the West Kelowna Warriors' nest Sunday at the Crescent Point Energy Western Canada Cup junior A hockey championship in Estevan, Sask. The Alberta-champion Bandits scored three unanswered goals to defeat the Warriors 4-2.

Rod Lecher's triathlon career is on hold. He's found a new sporting passion in powerlifting and has his son to blame for that.

Alyx Treasure is closing in on the Olympic standard. The 24-year-old high jumper from Prince George cleared 1.90 metres (six-foot-2 3/4) Saturday while winning the Rock Chalk Classic track and field meet in Lawrence, Kan.

Nino Fabbro didn't see the ball coming. But like a Muhammad Ali haymaker, it arrived with a knockout punch.

The Brooks Bandits raided the West Kelowna Warriors' nest Sunday at the Crescent Point Energy Western Canada Cup junior A hockey championship in Estevan, Sask. The Alberta-champion Bandits scored three unanswered goals to defeat the Warriors 4-2.