By Bruce Fuhr The Nelson Daily Sports Gnarlies Angels of Rossland continued to hold down the penthouse suite. The Dam City Rollers of Castlegar, savouring win number one on the club’s history book, are slowly, but surely, making their way up the to the top. And the Killjoys and Lumber Jackies of Nelson, well, these […]

The amazing playoff run for the Kootenay Ice finally came to an end.Devante Smith-Pelly scored twice to power the hometown Mississauga St. Michael’s Majors to a 3-1 victory over the Western Hockey League champs Friday in the 2011 MasterCard Memorial Cup semi-final game.The Majors will now face the Saint John Sea Dogs in...

By Bruce FuhrThe Nelson Daily SportsGeoff Kinrade and his Binghamton teammates have had a little more than a week to enjoy a sweep of the Charlotte Checkers and the Richard F. Canning Trophy as the Eastern Conference Champs.The team sitting at the opposing bench of the American Hockey League Championship series, Houston Aeros,...

The West Kootenay Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby League is coming to Nelson. The five-team league makes its inaugural stop in the Heritage City Saturday at the Nelson and District Community Complex Arena. Doors open at 6 p.m. with the first game going at 7 p.m. between Nelson’s Lumber Jackets and the high flying Gnarlies […]

The ladies on wheels are at it again with “Silence of the Jams,” a West Kootenay Women’s Roller Derby League event that hits Nelson this Saturday.  The bouts between Nelson's Lumber Jackies versus Rossland's Gnarlie's Angels and Castlegar's Dam City Rollers against Nelson's Killjoys, mark the third double-header for the league...

Trevor Frame of Castlegar entertained the crowd to claim the 15-plus age group at the SK8 event of the 2011 Kootenay Skateboard series this past weekend during May Days celebrations in Kaslo. Frame out-pointed Acquilla Clarke of the Sunflower City during the high-octane event. Raven Truth of Nelson was third. In the 14-year division Levi […]

By The Nelson Daily Sports Five local golfers will tee it up representing the Zone One West Kootenay at the B.C. Junior Championship July 5-8 at the Rossland/Trail Country Club. Tanner Kopan of Christina Lake, Redstone’s Kevin Bennett, Garrett Underwood of Champion Lakes and Brenan Moroney of Rossland/Trail were awarded berths in the tournament following […]

By The Nelson Daily Sports In just his second season as a professional, Nelson’s Geoff Kinrade is playing for the American Hockey League’s Calder Cup Championship. Kinrade & the Binghamton Senators scored a 4-3 home-ice victory over the Charlotte Checkers Wednesday night to sweep the Eastern Conference Final 4-0, and a berth in the Calder […]

By The Nelson Daily SportsFor the second time in three years the J. Lloyd Crowe Hawks are off to the B.C. High School AA Girl’s Soccer Championships.The Hawks used timely scoring before holding off the Bomber charge to knock off defending champion L.V. Rogers 3-2 in the Kootenay High School AA Girl’s Soccer Championships...

By The Nelson Daily SportsThe biggest prize of the High School Girl’s Roundball season is up for grabs Friday in the Silver City as four schools compete for a berth at the B.C. High School AA Soccer Championship.Defending zone champion, L.V. Rogers Bombers, enters the final four as the second seed in the Kootenay Zone...