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KONTIOLAHTI, Finland -- Valj Semerenko of Ukraine and Jakob Fak of Slovenia and won the women's and men's mass-start races Sunday on the final day of the biathlon world championships. In the women's 12.

There's a reason the St. Louis Blues signed Zach Pochiro to a three-year contract. Saturday night in Portland, the 21-year-old Prince George Cougars winger offered up a reminder to the Portland Winterhawks.

Griffen Outhouse faced 48 shots in two games and turned aside all of them on the weekend.

For Sarah Beaudry, it was like skiing on a carpet -- soggy and sluggish. Beaudry couldn't do anything about the spring-like ski conditions Saturday at the biathlon national championships in Hinton but what she could control was her shooting.

Megan Heinicke of Prince George helped Canada to a top-10 finish Friday at the biathlon world championships in Kontiolahti, Finland.

Just when it appeared the Prince George Polars were dead in the water against the Queen Charlotte Saints, a shark named Tyrell Laing opened up his jaws and clamped down.

In all his years of playing hockey, Isaiha Berra has never won a provincial championship. Neither have 17 of his Prince George Coast Inn of the North midget Tier 1 Cougar teammates. They intend to end that drought next Thursday night in Comox.

There's no place like home for the Prince George Prime Truck and Trailer Cougars.

Michael Buonincontri and Brogan O'Brien scored late in the third period, but the Prince George Spruce Kings couldn't complete the comeback Friday night in Chilliwack.

If there's a team that's well-rested going into its playoff run, it would probably be the Northland Dodge Cougars. Thanks to their first-place finish in the B.C.