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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.

The Prince George Farr Fabricating Cougars figured wins at the bantam Tier 1 provincial championships would be hard to come by and so far their prognostications have proved correct.

Riley Dreskin has never been so relieved to see a puck miss the net.

Alyssa Connell's curling team won silver medals at the B.C. Winter Games last month, but they still have one more bonspiel left this week. And it's a big one.

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Alan Alderson didn't like the start, but he'll take the finish. Alderson, head coach of the UNBC men's soccer team, watched the club lose its first three games and win its final three at the Mr. Quick BCISL Competitive Indoor Soccer Tournament.

UNBC won the Francesco Bartolillo sweepstakes. Bartolillo, an ultra-talented midfielder from Calgary, was coveted by numerous university soccer programs but has signed with the UNBC Timberwolves for the next Canada West season.

When the North Shore Winter Club Winterhawks needed someone to put the sting of defeat into their archrivals from Burnaby, they tapped a northern boy to get the job done. Knowing a win over the undefeated Bruins would vault North Shore into the B.C.