Cats grab bronze by stopping Elkford, Immaculata continues to shine with KVC title
Local teams took it on the chin at the Kootenay Volleyball Classic Saturday at the Mount Sentinel High School gymnasium.Host Wildcats captured the bronze medal for the best finish for the three West Kootenay entrants.“As I mentioned before (tournament) the challenge with our team is to find ways to play beyond our ages (Grade...
Gonzaga Basketball director heads youth hoop camp at Selkirk College
The Selkirk Saints Athletics program and Kootenay Basketball have teamed up to present a new basketball camp for boys and girls aged 11-18 year olds under the guidance of Director of Men’s Basketball at Gonzaga University, Jerry Krause.Krause, who instructed last season during a camp at L.V. Rogers in Nelson, has been a...
Rebels continue winning streak
Roughly 220 fans showed up last night to watch the Rebels take the Kimberley Dynamiters 1-0, leaving the Rebels tied with Beaver Valley for second place in the Neil Murdoch Division.The first period saw the game’s one and only goal scored by #7 Stuart Walton (assisted by #16 Anthony Delong) during a power play with 14 minutes...
Time running out on players wanting to guarantee a spot in the Soccer Quest Indoor Leagues
Time is running out on adult players interested in taking their soccer skills indoors.Friday, September 30 is the final day for registration for the upcoming Soccer Quest Indoor season.Soccer Quest boasts four leagues for players — Men’s Open League (Tuesday), Ladies Rec League (Wednesday), Men’s Masters League (Thursday) and...
Silvertips sweep Kootenay Ice on Vancouver Island as BCMMHL opens new season
Chase Lang, Hobin Zinck and Garrett Dunlop each scored twice as the North Island Silvertips rocked the Kootenay Ice 10-3 Sunday in B.C. Major Midget Hockey League action in Nanaimo.The win, coming on the heels of a 3-1 decision by North Island over Kootenay Saturday, gave the Silvertips a sweep of the BCMMHL series.“We played...
Leaf profile: Andrew Walton says 'no big deal' to play out his junior career in Nelson
Throughout the KIJHL season The Nelson Daily Sports Editor Bruce Fuhr will take a capsule look at the players on the Nelson Leafs hockey club. Today the focus in on starting netminder Andrew Walton.If someone in the crowd last year during a Nelson/Castlegar game had said in a year from now Andrew Walton would be wearing the...
Mallard's Source for Sports joins forces with stopconcussions.com to help prevent concussions in hockey
At their annual Marketing and Buying Convention, Source For Sports® and Stopconcussions.com launched their Head Zone initiative to their store owners, the sporting goods industry trade and the media. “It is amazing how our helmet manufacturers including Bauer, Reebok, CCM, Easton and Cascade, the medical community, and the ...
Kootenay Ice take optimistic approach into net BCMMHL season
By Bruce FuhrThe Nelson Daily SportsNow the fun begins.The Kootenay Ice kick off the 2011-12 B.C. Major Midget Hockey League season with plenty of optimism as the interior based squad heads to Vancouver Island for a two-game set Saturday and Sunday in Nanaimo against the North Island Silvertips.And new head coach Mario DiBella...
Leafs, Nitehawks post shutouts in Murdoch Division action on opening night of KIJHL
Wow! What a difference a week makes.Andrew Walton turned away 27 shots to power the Nelson Leafs to a 3-0 victory over the defending Kootenay Conference Champion, Castlegar Rebels, in Kootenay International Junior Hockey League action Friday night at the Community Complex in the Sunflower City.The win gained the Green and...
Rebels double Leafs, exhibition home-and-home resumes in Nelson Thursday
The Castlegar Rebels continued its success over the Nelson Leafs, albeit in the exhibition season, doubling the Green and White 6-3 Wednesday in Kootenay International Junior Hockey League action at the Complex in the Sunflower City.The game was the first of the two-game, home-and-home preseason series between the two West...
