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A week ago as 40 women spun out of the gate in the second race at the Wild Rose MX Park in Calgary, the weather was not good. Rain started coming down in sheets. There was hail. There was wind.

For the first time this season, the clock won't be ticking for a Prince George Cycling Club event.

The top-two ranked players in the Prince George Tennis Club will return to compete in the Prince George Citizen Open Tennis Championships this weekend.

Bill Masich has been around the Prince George Track and Field Club for as long as he can remember. He was only a youngster when his dad Tom, along with others interested in the sport, formed the club in 1973.

The Northland Nissan Assault picked up its third win of the season in Prince George Senior Lacrosse Association action Monday thanks to the father and son tandem of Tom and John Makowsky.

Grace Northrop can now call herself a black belt judoka. After years of hard work and dedication, the 16-year-old who trains at the Hart Judo Academy earned her first-degree black belt in Richmond on Sunday.

Caroline Kinnee catapulted to a bronze medal at the Western Canada Cup trampoline and tumbling competition in Port Moody on the weekend.

Casidy Campbell stepped into the hammer throw circle Saturday at Masich Place Stadium and tossed the ball of steel 23.11 metres. It was a new personal best for the 12-year-old Prince George Track and Field Club athlete, an improvement of 5.

Terrance Parker liked the skunk the best. The six-year-old also saw dinosaurs, bears, lions, beavers, cheetahs, bison and moose along the way during the first round of the annual Silvertip Archers outdoor 3-D shoot on the weekend.

If the Prince George Gnats proved one thing on Saturday, it's that they can play solid defence, especially against the defending league champions. The Gnats surrendered only two tries against the visiting Williams Lake Rustlers in a 12-8 loss in a B.