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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.

The prolonged celebration after Zach Pochiro's first goal left him with a warm and fuzzy feeling. His immediate glass-banging reaction after his second of the night practically catapulted him out of skates.

Carolina and Nico Hiller just gave the people of Prince George two good reasons to come out and support the Canada Winter Games long track speed skating competition in February. They both made the B.C.

Goalie Jesse Jenks and centre Brogan O'Brien didn't make the cut for Team Canada West at the World Junior A Challenge. Bad for them, good for the Prince George Spruce Kings.

The Alison's Embroidery Gators stick-handled their way to a silver medal at the Fraser Lake Hawks atom ringette tournament on the weekend.