Local Sports

When the community is invited to have breakfast with a four-time Olympic champion, the event is bound to sell out. It's exactly what happened with the inaugural UNBC Timberwolves Legacy Breakfast, slated for tomorrow morning at 7 a.m.

For the first time in the post-season, the Prince George Spruce Kings find themselves trailing 2-0 in a playoff series. The Kings lost 8-1 to the Chilliwack Chiefs Saturday on the road in Game 2 of the best-of-seven B.C.

Two victories. That's all the Northland Dodge Northern Cougars need to be crowned champions of the B.C. Female Midget Triple-A Hockey League.

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.