Local Sports

Gene Dykes and the late Ed Whitlock are the only two people 70 years or older known to have run under three hours in a marathon.

This season marks a record number of Upper Island Riptide girls playing university and college soccer with 14 alumni playing in Canada and the U.S.

The win streak for the Comox Valley Kickers women’s rugby team continued Saturday but the men’s team fell short in the Cowichan Valley, where both sides the Cowichan Piggies.

Team loses 7-1 to Peninsula Saturday but played a closer one against Oceanside on Friday

Local team Hill slayers! takes top spot in female pairs in Enduro

The Mowi Riptide U14 and U16 girls, and the U16 boys soccer team, played road games Saturday.

Derek Vinge topped a field of 133 athletes to take the title of provincial cross triathlon champion at PACE Multisport Dodge City X, held September 7 in Cumberland.

Camryn Curts of the Thompson Rivers University women’s soccer team has kicked off the 2019 Canada West season with a goal and an assist.

Comox Valley United has won its first three games of the season, which gives the men’s team a share of the lead in Division 2 of the Vancouver Island Soccer League.

The Canadian Death Race is a 125-kilometre race in Grande Cache, Alta. — an incredibly difficult race, with 17,000 feet of climbing. It includes a river crossing where participants must pay a coin to the Grim Reaper for passage across the ‘River Styx,’ as in Greek Mythology.