Mallard's Team of the Week — The Competition 2013 Mixed Slopitch Champs
The Competition pulled off the rags to riches story to steal the spotlight by capturing the 2013 Nelson Mixed Slopitch Championship recently at the Lakeside Diamonds. The Competition defeated defending champion Louie’s 3-1 in the final. The title is the third time in the league’s 19 seasons that this team has won the A...
Fire Balls, Innkeepers, Club Inter hold leads in City Soccer Leagues
The only remaining on the Lakeside Soccer Fields is Canada Geese and City of Nelson maintenance workers as both youth and adult leagues take their summer hiatus. Nelson City Soccer was the last to pack it in for the summer as the league gears up for the second half of the campaign in September. In the Finley’s Ladies Rec...
Stil time to enter the MS Bike Tour — West Kootenay Glacier Challenge
If you ever wanted to ride around Kokanee Glacier, then the MS Bike Tour — West Kootenay Glacier Challenge is just what the doctor ordered. The event, set for August 17-18, starts riders in New Denver Saturday (August 17) for the first leg of the 222 kilometer ride. Starting from Greer Park in New Denver, riders trek along ...
NMHA offers early-bird special for upcoming minor hockey season
No mistake about it, it's not really hockey weather. However, Nelson Minor Hockey is gearing up for another season on the pond by opening up registration for the 2013-14 campaign. And, for those players signing up and paying the full, meal, deal by August 15, 2013, there's a $50 saving. The real deadline for the upcoming...
Mallard's Team of the Week — Nelson Italian Society Bocce winners
Bocce may be a two-man team game, but Sunday at the Lakeside Rotary Park a bigger team got together to compete in the Nelson Italian Society Bocce tournament. Mallard's Source for sports would like to salute, just not the winners, but all the player who entered the one-day tourney as Team of the Week. The winners, in no...
Back in Black: RTRG faces off against old nemesis
The Rossland Trail Roller Girls (RTRG) haven’t had their wings clipped--yet. The newly amalgamated team, made up of the former Gnarlie’s Angels of Rossland and Bad News Betties of Trail, are ready to square off against an old nemesis, Salmo’s Babes of Brutality. The Babes and Angels toiled back and forth with more bouts against...
Not a bad gig if you can get it
When most people are on their way to work, there's a group of skiers out on Kootenay Lake. The trio, led by Nelson's own Bruce Ramsay, take to the water near the Regional District of Central Kootenay transfer station where the waterski course is located. The boys up early when the water is like glass, before 7 a.m. Not a bad...
Greenwood to host social rugby tournament
This August long weekend, Greenwood residents won't have to stray far from home to find excitement -- excitement is coming to Greenwood. A social rugby tournament is being held at city park Aug. 2 to 4 with teams from across the province being invited to take part. Social rugby is a style of Union rugby that is competitive ...
The Competition bests Louie's to capture Nelson Mixed Slopitch Crown
The Competition turned a so-so regular season into playoff supremacy after knocking off defending champion Louie’s 3-1 in the A Final of the Nelson Mixed Slopitch Championships Sunday at the Lakeside Diamonds. The Competition, typically near the top of the standings most seasons, finished the season with an average 6-9 record....
Let the Nelson Mixed Slopitch playoffs begin
Defending playoff champion Louies and 2013 regular season winners, Bogustown are the early favourites into this weekend's Nelson Mixed Slopitch Championship tournament set for the Lakeside Diamonds. The first pitch goes Friday evening. Action continues Saturday with the finals in the A, B & C Divisions set for Sunday. In...
