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Prince George might be the capital of northern B.C., but it's a tiny town compared to Corey Hoffman's home in Long Island, N.Y. He's from Syosset, close enough to New York City to see the long shadows cast by Manhattan skyscrapers.

The D.P. Todd Trojans were the highest-placing local team at the KSS Best of the West senior boys volleyball tournament, held in Kelowna last weekend.

VANCOUVER -- If you ask Brandon Deschamps to describe himself, the young man wearing No. 33 and lining up in the offensive backfield of the UBC Thunderbirds will keep it dead simple. "I'm just a Prince George guy out there banging," he likes to say.

With the closest team in their division being an eight-hour drive away, the Spruce Kings are all too familiar with their bus.

John Kazakoff will best be remembered in the sports community for his three decades of teaching the game of baseball to Prince George kids. As much as he loved baseball, Kazakoff spent a good chunk of his life trying to improve his own golf game.

When he's looking back at his WHL career at the end of this season, Prince George goalie Mack Shields will be smiling when he thinks about what he did to his former Calgary Hitmen teammates when they paid a two-game visit to CN Centre.

Every summer, Ben Yeager crisscrosses the province competing on the downhill mountain biking circuit. Golden, Vernon, Kamloops, Whistler, Fernie. Even trips to Mont Tremblant and Mont Sainte Anne in Quebec are common.

When Kody McDonald scores, the Prince George Cougars win.

The volleyball pipeline from Prince George to Kamloops continues to flow year after year. And when the Thompson Rivers University WolfPack go searching for talent, one of the first places they visit is Prince George.

Jansen Harkins knows the Prince George Cougars are a much better team than what they showed Saturday in a 6-2 loss at home to the Kelowna Rockets.