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After being told they weren't good enough to play hockey for Team B.C. in February at the 2015 Canada Winter Games, three players from the first-place Northland Dodge Northern Cougars were asked to practice with the team over the weekend in Richmond.

The Prince George Spruce Kings came away with a point in a 5-4 double overtime loss to the Coquitlam Express Saturday night.

The streak has come to an end. The Cariboo Cougars ran the table for 13 straight wins in the B.C. Major Midget Hockey League but that stretch of good fortune came to an end Sunday morning in Delta.

Arthur Roots was just 16 when he competed in his first Canada Winter Games as a biathlete nearly four years ago in Halifax. He made it into the top-12 as an individual that year and won a relay bronze medal.

Prince George biathlete Megan Heinicke was perfect on the shooting range en route to a 14th-place finish in the World Cup 10-kilometre women's pursuit in Pokljuka, Slovenia on Saturday. Based on her 41st-place finish on Thursday in the women's 7.

Megan Heinicke placed a respectable 41st in the women's 7.5-kilometre sprint at a World Cup biathlon stop in Pokljuka, Slovenia, on Thursday. She advanced to the women's 10km pursuit today.

It's now official. Four Prince George biathletes from the Caledonia Nordic Ski Club have made the cut for Team B.C. to compete in the Canada Winter Games.

No. 1 in the province in December doesn't mean much to the Duchess Park Condors. What matters to them is being tops on that list on March 7 when they hand out the hardware at the double-A girls basketball championship in Langley.

The numbers game is catching up with the Prince George Spruce Kings. Missing six regulars due to injuries with an additional player out on loan, the Kings lost 3-1 on the road Friday to the Surrey Eagles.

Jordan Waterston slipped the puck underneath goalie Holden Taylor to break a 5-5 tie to help the College Heights Cougars edge the Prince George Polars 6-5 Friday afternoon.