Sports

We were a little late with our annual halibut and salmon trip to Port Hardy, but we pulled it off during the week of Aug. 21-25. Smitty and I have been fishing and hunting together since 1972 – as far as we can recall.

The Double G now also means "Goodbye, Grant."

The Courtenay Lawn Bowling Club is in the last month of the season, but the action is still keen and the greens are really mean.

Brenda Dean, who represents Tennis Canada and Tennis BC in the role of a Building Tennis Community Champion, is hosting a tennis rally event on Saturday, Sept. 17 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Lewis Park courts in Courtenay.

Taylor Green wasted no time introducing himself to Major League Baseball pitching.

Duane Zeinstra in car #11 dominated a competitive 25-lap feature race for the Old Timers at Saratoga Speedway on Saturday.

A large contigent of Comox Valley Road Runners travelled to Texada Island to tackle the inaugural Run The Rock Marathon and Half Marathon. The Aug. 28 event was run up and down the hills of Texada Island, challenging even the fittest of runners.

As the inaugural 2011 race of the notorious Cross on The Rock cyclocross race series, the Trail Bicycles-Eatmore Sprouts Cycling Team is presenting the Cumberland Coal Cross race. The Sunday, Sept. 11 event sees all the fun, action and attitude of cyclocross return to Cumberland Village Park and the Coal Hills BMX track.

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Courtenay triathlete Tenille Hoogland competes next week at the half-Ironman world championships in Las Vegas.