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Merritt Centennials defenceman Jake Clifford scored the winner in double overtime to edge the Prince George Spruce Kings 3-2 Friday night at the Coliseum.

Tate Olson's bomb from the blueline was right on target. It hit nothing but net and provided the Prince George Cougars all they needed to complete a come-from-behind 3-1 win victory over the Everett Silvertips Friday night in Everett.

The eyes of the nation will be on Otway Nordic Centre for two weeks in February during the Canada Winter Games and thousands of spectators will have the chance to take part in the action.

For 27 years, in winter weather extremes ranging from bone-chilling cold to balmy spring-like conditions that turn frozen roads into rivers, the Prince George Iceman has been a unique sporting event that brings out the best in the community.

Missed it by that much. For Megan Heinicke, 3.6 seconds was all that separated her from Norway's Elise Ringen for a 60th-place finish in Friday's World Cup biathlon 7.5-kilometre sprint in Hochfilzen, Austria.

Joel Patsey is not the kind of hockey defenceman who instigates offensive rushes up the ice and he's not about to put up forward-like point totals.

They've done it twice this season. Tonight in Everett the erratic Prince George Cougars will find out if they can stretch a winning streak to four games, this time at the expense of the high-flying Silvertips.

Dating back to the 1996-97 season, when they left the old Rocky Mountain Junior Hockey League to join the B.C.

Samantha Thomas will be a spectator, not a participant, when the province's six-male, six-female artistic gymnastics team is competing against the rest of the country for Canada Winter Games gold in February.

Canada is a perennial favourite to win the world junior hockey championship but there are two members of the Prince George Cougars who will be cheering against the Canadian team when it opens the tournament Dec. 26 in Montreal against Slovakia.