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The secret is out on the Prince George Posse. After two convincing wins Friday in their first games this season at the A2 midget level, they are no longer snakes in the grass at the provincial lacrosse championship.

After three years coaching men's soccer at Canada's green university, Alan Alderson is moving on to greener pastures.

The end of the spring season for the Whitecaps FC Northern Academy this weekend at Rotary Field means soccer kids from Prince George will get to mesh with their counterparts from the Whitecaps' Quesnel-based Cariboo Academy.

Sonny Pawar has left his footprints all over Prince George soccer. As he prepares to begin a new chapter in his life, the city he has called home for almost all of his 48 years owes him a rather large thank-you.

In a 20-game season, the New Westminster Salmonbellies were the only team to figure out how to beat the Coquitlam Adanacs this year.

The Coquitlam Adanacs picked up right where they left off, on the winning side of the ledger.

For boxer Kenny Lally, it was like trying to hit a ghost. It seemed every time he tried to nail Andy Cruz, the slick Cuban disappeared a wisp of smoke.

Amanda Asay was holding her breath on the pitcher's mound as the long throw to home sailed in from left field.

Boxer Kenny Lally passed his first test at the Pan Am Games. Now he faces the next one this afternoon. The 26-year-old Prince George boxer is set to climb into the ring in a 56-kilogram semifinal bout at 4:35 p.m.

In the midst of a July heat wave, the only ice most of those in Prince George will find is at the bottom of a tumbler glass.