Local Sports

To prepare themselves for the second half of the season, the U15 girls Riptide played a friendly soccer game against the U15 metro Vancouver FC over the holidays.

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.