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Shut out of the medal parade in their three previous races, the girls from Team B.C. finally put it together Saturday in the last women's cross-country ski event of the Canada Winter Games.

It will be Nova Scotia battling Ontario for Canada Winter Games gold in women's curling. The final will be on the ice today at the Prince George Golf and Curling Club at 5 p.m.

One of the legacies of the Canada Winter Games is a dull, throbbing case of civic embarrassment. The discomfort grows when standing on the west side of the CN Centre complex.

Members of the Prince George Water Lilies held something of an impromptu reunion with British Columbia's synchronized swimming team this week.

Their legs and lungs may have been burning in the deep-water pool, but that didn't prevent a pair of sisters from standing atop the podium at the Prince George Aquatic Centre on Friday.

The Canada Winter Games will soon come to an end but it's only the beginning as far as Tabor Mountain Ski Resort is concerned. Indeed, the calendar is filling up thanks to the new snow cross track at the hill, 15 minutes east of the city.

B.C. has earned the right to play for fifth place tonight in the Canada Winter Games men's hockey tournament but it took a determined comeback Friday afternoon for the host team to grab that straw.

Thirty-three seconds. That's all the overtime it took for Jansen Harkins to score on Seattle Thunderbirds goalie Taran Kozun to give the Prince George Cougars a 5-4 win Friday night in Seattle.

The Prince George Spruce Kings have put themselves in position to overtake the Langley Rivermen for second place in the B.C. Hockey League's Mainland Division.

Their first trip to the Canada West post-season ended in the minimum number of games. Friday night in Vancouver, the UNBC Timberwolves fell 88-78 to the UBC Thunderbirds in Game 2 of a best-of-three men's basketball playoff series.