Sports

Fast-paced games with few whistles greeted the Vanier Towhees senior boys basketball team when they landed in Calgary for the Western Canada High School tournament.

This past weekend, five teams from the Comox Valley Curling Club's ladies league battled it out to represent the club at the North Island BC Club Challenge.

A trio of athletes who call Mount Washington Alpine Resort home will be among more than 350 British Columbians travelling to Nova Scotia to represent the province at the 2011 Canada Winter Games in Halifax, Feb. 11 to 27.

Get ready to bump, set and hit your way into the Junior Strikers volleyball camp.

Under the direction of recently appointed head coach Aaron L’Arrive, and paced by a hat trick of tries from wing Ross McLean, the Comox Valley Kickers began the spring rugby season with an impressive 30-12 win over the Saanich Aggies in Victoria on Sunday.

Comox Valley’s three Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) basketball stars shone for their respective teams this past weekend.

I retired in 1983 after a 35-year career in education, most of it as a principal of elementary schools. It was the kind of work that did not lend itself to the concept of being slow busy. So what is “slow busy”?

The Comox Valley Curling Club was once again the hub of the action this past weekend as the local Hangover League hosted their annual Eric Chayco Memorial Bonspiel.

The Hyland Ready Mix Whiteheads bantam hockey team took top spot at the recent Gold River tournament.

The Comox Valley Pool League is in its third season and plays every Wednesday night out of the Avalanche, Island Tides Lounge, The Mex Pub, Snookers Lounge and Sunnydale Golf Course.