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Don't panic. That wasn't the same Prince George Spruce Kings team that will take to the ice during the B.C. Hockey League regular season.

With one hundred years of motocross race experience spread over three generations, the Watson family of Quesnel seems to have no fear of flying. If that worry does exist, they're pretty good at hiding it.

Hayden Wolff most likely won't get a new bike from Kawasaki this year but there's a good chance of a $3,000 cheque coming his way once the Prince George Motocross Association season wraps up this weekend in Quesnel.

The Barley Boyz of Alberta earned bragging rights as slo-pitch national champions Saturday at the Canada Plus-55 Games in Sherwood Park, Alta.

Members of the Prince George Horseshoe Club tossed to medals and had top-five results at the B.C. Horseshoe Championships in Cloverdale on Labour Day weekend.

Cramming and studying in the exhibition season is now complete for the UNBC Timberwolves.

The Prince George Cougars have hired a guy once traded for Wayne Gretzky as their new assistant coach.

Jacob Krupp knows the way to San Jose, but he's in no hurry to get back there. The 19-year-old native Californian would have much preferred to stick with the Prince George Spruce Kings as a B.C. Hockey League goaltender this season.

Sure, Jim Van Bakel ran Boston this year. And the Prince George runner posted a respectable time of two hours, 50.35 minutes in the historic, famed marathon in April.

The Prince George Cougars have hired as their new assistant coach a guy once traded for Wayne Gretzky.