Local Sports

The Isfeld Ice senior boys basketball team has qualified for the triple-A B.C. championships.

Glacier Kings more than double last year’s win total but miss post-season

Duncan Whetter is a commanding presence on the football field.

In only his second year in the sport, Sebastian Lambert of Denman Island was selected to play with the B.C. U14 team that competed in December at the Snoop Youth Football League National Championship in Los Angeles. Rapper Snoop Dogg founded the non-profit league for inner-city children to play football.

Six cadets from 386 Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron in Comox competed in the Regional Cadet Biathlon Competition at Sovereign Lake Nordic Centre last weekend in Vernon. A total of 84 cadets tested their fitness, skiing, teamwork and marksmanship skills over the 4.5 and 6 km courses.

Masters’ baseball season is fast approaching. Registration for the Komox Men’s Real Baseball League is on now, forms are available at Happy’s Source for Sports or you can register online via email at https://bit.ly/37KqCfg

The senior girls basketball team at Highland Secondary finished third at the double-A Island championships on the weekend in Shawnigan Lake, just missing a provincial berth.

The Mark Isfeld senior girls basketball team qualified for the triple-A provincial tournament by finishing second at the Island championships last weekend at Wellington Secondary in Nanaimo.

The Vanier Towhees senior boys basketball team beat the host school 63-57 Thursday at the 4A North Island playoffs at Dover Bay Secondary in Nanaimo.

For the first time in many years, the Mark Isfeld senior boys basketball team entered the North Island playoff tournament as underdogs in each of the three games they played. The triple-A tourney was last weekend in Port Alberni.