Local Sports

The Highland senior boys basketball team participated in the Edward Milne AA Tournament in Sooke on Dec. 28 and 29. Game one versus Parkland Secondary saw two evenly matched teams battling it out. Will Derksen, who was all arms in the paint, scored six points in the first quarter and would go on to draw out eight free throw opportunities through the third and fourth quarters.

The Comox Valley Road Runners annual 5k Clinic starts Saturday, Jan. 19.

Vanier beat 4A squad en route to final

Five members of the Strathcona Nordic Ski Club competed at the 2018 Haywood NorAm World Junior/U23 Trials in Canmore, Alta. last month. The high-level event attracted top cross country ski racers from across Canada.

Double-A basketball teams engage in classic

The Isfeld Ice senior boys basketball team concluded the first half of the season with an 85-57 win over the Wildcats of Wellington, Tuesday at home.

The Comox Valley Glacier Kings lost 4-1 to the Oceanside Generals, Tuesday in a Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League game at the Comox Valley Sports Centre.

Another great crowd at the Towhee gym watched their Vanier senior boys play Ballenas from Parksville in a North Island 3A basketball match, Tuesday evening.

Once again there will be basketball offered for girls this spring.

The Strathcona Nordic Ski Club and Vancouver Island were well represented by 13 athletes at the Haywood 2018 NorAm/US Super Tour Cross Country ski race in Vernon in early December. This was the first time on snow for most of the athletes, who put all their hours of dryland training to work, and displayed some excellent skiing and results over the two-day event.