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The Prince George Cougars will be missing one of their big guns when they start shooting bullets this weekend at the Victoria Royals.

Samara Thew is the epitome of the Olympic motto - faster, higher, stronger.

In varsity sports, maintaining good grades is as important as scoring goals and sinking baskets for student athletes.

Minutes after he skated out to an appreciative CN Centre audience after being named the 23rd captain in the history of the Prince George Cougars, Sam Ruopp introduced himself to the Kamloops Blazers the way he knows best.

Justin Hampole doesn't need to be reminded what's at stake this weekend in the B.C/Yukon section figure skating championships at Kin 1. He has to finish in the top two in his pre-novice under-16 men's category.

With the sting of an embarrassing loss still fresh on their minds, all the Cariboo Cougars did was go out and crush the Kootenay Ice by a combined score of 19-2 in a pair of games in Trail on the weekend.

The visiting Northern Cougars hit the Vancouver Island Hurricanes with all their might on the weekend, earning a three-game sweep against the hosts in regular-season action in the B.C. Hockey Female Midget AAA League.

The D.P. Todd Trojans and College Heights Cougars served to seventh and eighth-place finishes respectively at the Coyote Classic senior boys volleyball tournament in Winfield on the weekend.

The Prince George Spruce Kings have hired a rocket scientist they hope will give them an extra boost this B.C. Hockey League season. Quinn Mulligan is a rocket scientist by trade and an X's and O's guy by night.

The Prince George Spruce Kings traded a defenceman for a defenceman on Monday. The Kings acquired 18-year-old Ryan Fritz from the Nanaimo Clippers in exchange for another 18-year-old, blueliner Jordan Low.