The Nelson Leafs Senior Novice team won a pair of games last weekend in the Silver City, edging the Trail Troopers and Trail Nitehawks by identical 3-2 scores in minor hockey action. Nelson defeated the Troopers on goals by Larson Proctor, Miller Tedesco and Sawan Bhabra. The Novice Leafs then narrowly got past the Nitehawks...

The Mount Sentinel Wildcats look to play their best volleyball of the season as the South Slocan school hosts the BC High School A Girl's Championships through Saturday at the Selkirk College gymnasium in Castlegar. The Wildcats are seeded eighth entering the 16-team tournament, but have few of key players returning to action...

Hey Leaf Nation relax, all is well says coach and GM Dave McLellan. However, this was before the Green and White were shellacked 9-zip by of all teams, rival Castlegar Rebels Wednesday night in the Sunflower City. “We’re going in direction I thought we would at this time of the season having all rookie defencemen,” McLellan...

Playing before the second smallest crowd since 1975, the Edmonton Eskimos rallied from a 13-0 deficit to edge the Ottawa Redblacks 26-20 in the 103rd Grey Cup Sunday night in Winnipeg. The Grey Cup title was the first for Edmonton since 2005 and 14th in team history. Only the Toronto Argonauts, with 16, have won more Grey...

Trafalgar Thunder teams will square off this week for West Kootenay bragging rights after the Nelson-based squads finished one-two at the Grade 8 Girl's Volleyball Championships Friday at the Mount Sentinel gymnasium in the South Slocan. "Since we were playing each other in the final we decided to play it at Trafalgar on...

The Nelson Leafs two-game road swing through the East Kootenay concluded on a sour note Saturday night in Invermere. Colby Sherlock scored the game winner four minutes into the third period to snap a 2-2 tie sparking the Columbia Valley Rockies to a 4-2 Kootenay International Junior Hockey League victory over the Leafs. The...

Bob Ursel rink of Kelowna managed to claim the top prize at the Doug Bothamley Memorial Open Cashspiel Sunday at the Nelson Curling Club. Ursel, third Dave Stephenson, second Don Freschi of Trail and lead, Fred Thomson of Nelson, won $2,100 by defeating Myron Nichol of Castlegar 6-2 in the A Final. The Ursel rink now prepares...

When it rains, it generally pours. Just ask the Nelson Leafs hockey club. Currently riding a three-game losing streak and losing twice to a team the Leafs usually beat on a consistent basis— new-and-improved Grand Forks Border Bruins — the Green and White face the unenviable task of hosting the Murdoch Division leading Beaver...

The Trafalgar Thunder have been burning up the West Kootenay Junior Girl’s Volleyball scene as the team prepares for the upcoming West Kootenay Championships. Mallard’s Source for sports would like to showcase the Thunder as Team of the Week. The team includes Lauren Hartridge, Teigan Barnhart, Farrah Marzicola, Nicola Anderson,...

Brace yourself Kootenay International Junior Hockey League fans. The hottest team, okay one of the hottest teams in the entire KIJHL is the Grand Forks Border Bruins. The Bruins, long considered a bottom feeder in the KIJHL, won for the fifth straight time Saturday night at the NDCC Arena, knocking off the Nelson Leafs 2-1....