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The Coast Inn of the North midget Tier 1 Cougars went south to Penticton for a three-game hockey test, and aced it.

It was well worth the 60-minute drive to Vanderhoof for the Prince George Blizzard Speed Skating Club to compete at the B.C. Short Track Provincial Championships and the Regionale FUNale on the weekend.

The Duchess Park senior girls basketball squad wrapped up their season with a fifth-place finish at the B.C. High School Girls double-A championship in Langley on the weekend. The Condors defeated Seycove 77-67 on Saturday for the top-five finish.

Thirty kilometres of racing the trails of Otway Nordic Centre was not nearly enough for Nikki Kassel.

It was a silver rush instead of gold, but the players and coaches will take it.

Fresh off her appearance at the Canada Winter Games, Grace Northrop battled to gold at the Pacific International judo tournament on the weekend.

Chad Staley scored on the power play in sudden-death overtime to lift the Prince George Spruce Kings to a 5-4 victory Monday night in Langley. Staley's goal, his second of the game, was scored at the 8:56 mark of the extra frame.

The road to the Telus Cup got a little bit shorter Friday for the Cariboo Cougars. They notched their first victory of the 2015 B.C. Major Midget Hockey League playoffs, a 3-1 triumph over the visiting Fraser Valley Thunderbirds at Kin 1.

Skiers from across Alberta and B.C. will race down the slopes this weekend at the Western Canada Ski Cross Series at Tabor Mountain.

The Duchess Park Condors will return to Prince George without a provincial medal. The top-ranked double-A senior girls' basketball squad was upset by No. 8-ranked Notre Dame 63-61 in a quarterfinal at the B.C.