Local Sports

After a league-wide bye to attend the HSBC Canada Sevens tournament last week, rugby resumed last Saturday with a double header at Cumberland Village Park.

The Comox Valley Pickleball Association and Academy hosted the Step Up Your Game pickleball clinic March 9 at the Comox Community Centre.

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Pam Ross of Courtenay has been named Sport BC’s female coach-of-the-year.

The TD Wealth Comox Valley Atom A Chiefs hockey team won the Vancouver Island Amateur Hockey Association Division 2 championship on March 10 in Parksville.

New Canadian Premier League Pacific Football Club wants to be a team for people from Sooke to Tofino

The 2019 Teck Coast Cup cross country ski race series wrapped up March 8 and 9 at Mount Washington, hosted by the Strathcona Nordic Ski Club. The annual Vancouver Island Loppet was also held March 9. Of six coastal ski clubs, Strathcona finished second in aggregate points behind North Vancouver’s Hollyburn for the Coast Cup series.

Soccer team also to play in ̨ÍåMMÂãÁÄÊÒ Cup

Courtenay golfer is defending tourney champ

A large group of Comox Valley Road Runners made the trip to Nanaimo last weekend to test their mettle at the Cedar 12k — the fourth instalment of the Island Road Running Series.