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Humbling. Embarrassing. Demoralizing. All adjectives apply to the Prince George Spruce Kings to describe how they felt after getting pasted twice by the Wenatchee Wild in their home-opening weekend.

The College Heights Cougars will be in Calgary starting today to begin the high school volleyball season. The Cougars senior boys and junior A boys teams are entered in the Calgary Dino Invitational tournaments at the University of Calgary.

The UNBC Timberwolves learned a valuable lesson last weekend on the men's soccer field in Victoria. No lead is too safe in the Canada West Conference, especially against a team ranked in the top-10 in the CIS.

And then there were three. The Prince George Cougars are down to three goalies after they reassigned 19-year-old Patrick Gora Thursday to the Camrose Kodiaks of the Alberta Junior Hockey League.

The Vancouver Canucks are on their way to Prince George today and tickets for this weekend's three-day training camp are a scarce commodity.

Goalie Alex Brooks-Potts has played his last game for the Prince George Spruce Kings. In a swap of goaltenders, the Kings announced Wednesday they've traded Brooks-Potts, a 20-year-old native of Mississauga, Ont.

The Duchess Park Condors are in rebuilding mode. The senior team lost a core of Grade 12 athletes to graduation last spring and is counting on a group of Grade 11 players for success in the Northern High School Football Conference this season.

The Prince George secondary school Polars have one goal in mind this season - to win the P.G. Bowl. The Bowl, slated this year for Oct.

Jen Ferguson is a palliative care registered nurse who travels around the region as a consultant. She's a married mom of two kids who coaches their softball teams. For some, that would seem like a busy enough schedule.

The Cariboo Cougars' quest to be the top team in the B.C. Hockey Major Midget League begins this weekend.