Sports

Attention VIJHL: The Comox Valley Glacier Kings are heating up.

Thursday, Oct. 6 is the deadline to enter this year's Dave Creamer Memorial Bursary Fund Hockey Pool. The entry form is on page B7 of Wednesday's Record sports.

In a word: awesome. That was how Colin Cunningham, Mark R. Isfeld Secondary School athletic director and basketball coach, described the weekend visit of the UVic Vikes' men's basketball team to his school

The Comox Valley United Soccer Club held a fundraising gala on Saturday to raise funds and awareness towards two artificial turf fields being proposed for Valley View Park.

If you think back about the weather this past weekend your immediate thoughts will probably be that it was wet and windy – not good fishing weather. Be that as it may, on Friday I looked at the weather and said to Elaine, "I have to go fishing tomorrow – rain or shine." She quietly conceded that it was okay with her and she would pack my lunch with a large thermos of hot tea.

The Thompson Rivers University WolfPack dropped a 3-0 set to the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds in pre-season Canada West men's volleyball action Sept. 23 at the Tournament Capital Center in Kamloops.

The Sasquatch is out there hiding and it's waiting for a competitive trail rider to find it!

His first year on the Canadian Tour was satisfactory. But Riley Wheeldon would prefer not to return next season.

Lois Pynn stole the honours for Sunnydale Thursday Night Ladies final night on Sept. 22. Eighteen women turned out in the howling wind and pouring rain to play a scramble and we had some "different" hole prizes which made for a lot of fun and laughter.

Under intermittent skies, 24 players teed off at Longlands on Sunday, Sept. 18 in the Comox Legion nine-hole golf wind-up. Starting at 10 a.m., they played a shotgun/best ball format.