Local Sports

For the first time in the nearly 40-year history of the Comox school, the Phil & Jennie Gaglardi Academy has had a senior boys athletic team.

Jade Froehlich of the Comox Valley has been named to the BC Rugby Elite 7s U16 team that competes at the Las Vegas Invitational tournament Feb. 28 - March 2.

Many landfill items can be diverted

Saturday, March 2 will be an amazing night of pro wrestling for the Comox Valley. One of the feature matches that has local implications will be the Fans Bring the Weapons Match between Barry Goode and the Comox Valley鈥檚 Keith 鈥� Kaos鈥� Spinks.

The grade 9 boys basketball team at Vanier Secondary won the Vancouver Island championships on the weekend at Brentwood College.

Two local air cadets have earned a chance to represent British Columbia and will be off to Prince Edward Island next month for the National Cadet Biathlon Championships, held in Brookvale, P.E.I., March 5-10.

Sixty amateur players from B.C. will square off Saturday, March 2 in Cumberland at the sixth annual Waverley Table Tennis Championships. The winner of the Waverley Cup will be crowned by Mayor Leslie Baird.

Vanier and Isfeld advance to B.C. championships

Due to weather and scheduling crunched into a small window, the Comox Valley United Division 1 men鈥檚 soccer team needs to play its 鈥榟ome game鈥� today in Nanaimo against the Mid-Isle Mariners.

In a 9-4 victory over Switzerland, a Langley-based curling team earned its 2nd straight world title