Local Sports

Fans who take in the action on the courts at the North Central Junior, Open and Masters Badminton tournament this weekend will also see something even more unique - wheelchair badminton.

Even though the snowcross course at Tabor Mountain is named after her, Meryeta O'Dine rarely races at home.

It didn't take long for Todd Fiddler to revert to his old habits.

Former Prince George Cougars captain Garrett Thiessen is among four former Cougars playing for gold Sunday at the CIS Potashcorp University Cup hockey championship in Saskatoon.

Kaia Andal was strong on her skis Saturday at the Haywood Ski national cross-country championships in Corner Brook. Nfld., one of four B.C. skiers to post top-10 finishes in the juvenile girls 7.5-kilometre classic mass start race.

The Northern Cougars overcame a slow start to defeat the Thompson-Okanagan Rockets 3-1 Friday to open the second round of the triple-A female midget hockey playoffs on home ice.

The Kitimat Kid did it again. Justin Almeida found a pocketful of kryptonite and used it to snuff the provincial bantam Tier 1 title hopes of the Burnaby Winter Club Bruins.

Three Paralympics, three gold medals. Joe Rea, head coach of Canada's wheelchair curling team, would be perfectly happy to keep the streak alive indefinitely.

They didn't win a game all tournament but nobody was hanging their heads Thursday when it was all over for the Prince George Farr Fabricating Cougars. They gave it all they had, but against the best bantam-aged hockey players in B.C.

The Prince George Coast Inn of the North Tier 1 midget Cougars won 50 games this season. Win No. 51 would have made them provincial champions.