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High school basketball titles up for grabs City champions will be determined in senior high school basketball tonight at the Northern Sport Centre. In the girls city final, the Duchess Park Condors will tip off against the College Heights Cougars.
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High school basketball titles up for grabs

City champions will be determined in senior high school basketball tonight at the Northern Sport Centre.

In the girls city final, the Duchess Park Condors will tip off against the College Heights Cougars. The game will start at 6 p.m. Later, at about 8 p.m., the Condors and the D.P. Todd Trojans will go head-to-head for the boys city title.

Heat battles to ringette bronze

The Central Interior Catering and Consulting Heat, an Under-14 team from the Prince George Ringette Association, claimed a bronze medal in dramatic fashion at a weekend tournament in Kelowna.

At the annual Sweetheart event, the Heat faced Kelowna for bronze in its division and got a winning goal from Brooklyn Lank with 3.8 seconds left on the clock. Lank also scored earlier in what became a 5-4 victory for the Heat. Sarah Derouin also scored twice for Prince George, while Myia Bruder added a single.

The Heat started the tournament with an 8-0 win against Northwest Vancouver, then lost 8-3 to Kelowna and beat Surrey 7-5. In the playoff semifinals, Prince George fell 8-6 to Vernon.

Lank finished the tournament with a team-high nine goals.

Turner joins UNBC women's soccer team

The UNBC Timberwolves women's soccer team has found some offensive punch with the addition of striker Claire Turner. Turner's commitment to the club for the 2019 Canada West season was announced on Tuesday by the UNBC athletics department.

Turner hails from Fort St. John and had made several visits to the UNBC campus before she decided the school was the right place for her.

"The visits were a really big turning point for me," she said. "I was able to meet the girls and they are all amazing. They are so kind and so inviting."

In Fort St. John, Turner was a member of the Northern Strikers.

"I am so excited to add Claire to our program," said UNBC coach Neil Sedgwick. "She will provide us with a hold-up play target who can also drop into midfield and make decisions which will help us keep possession. She knows our playing model well and we are looking forward to watching her progress as a Timberwolf."

Turner will enter the Biomedical Studies program at UNBC.