There will be no 16th title for Jackson's Hole. Starter Ken Anderson kept the high-powered Jackson's offence off balance for most of the game sparking the Louie's to 12-6 victory in the final of the Nelson Mixed Slopitch League Sunday at Queen Elizabeth Park. The win avenged two losses in the final to Jackson's by Louie's in...

Vancouver's Sole Survivor got the best of Nelson Home Grown 13-5 to capture the Disc Break Ultimate tournament Sunday at the Lakeside Pitch. It's the first time since 2003 the Nelson Ultimate League hosted a tournament. Sole Survivor pulled away from the host club in the second half after Home Grown managed to keep pace with...

By Daniel Routley, BC Summer Games A wild ride on the water has left a canoe team from Nelson smiling. With a time of 6:51, Kootenays (Zone 1) members Gino Catenacci, Galen Boulanger, Stuart Milde and Jacob Timmermans completed their 500 metre, four-person canoe race Saturday morning by paddling hard in reverse. Starting in...

By Dusty Yurkin, BC Summer Games The first time she tried vaulting, Nelson’s Kaylee Shukin (Kootenays – Zone 1) fell in love. Now, it’s brought her gold in the equestrian event at the BC Summer Games on Saturday. Shukin said she shares her passion for horses with her mother. The 13-year-old has never looked back since neighbours...

The Nelson Priority Concrete Cardinals accomplished what few Heritage City teams have done in the past — win a West Kootenay Little League Minor Division title. Ironically, the Cardinals won the title against a crosstown rival, Nelson's Overland West Tigers 8-4 last month at Queen Elizabeth Park. Mallard's Source for Sports...

There's baseball players, soccer enthusiasts, volleyballers, hoopsters . . . and that's just fro the West Kootenay. Kootenay athletes join counterparts from throughout the province in Surrey this weekend for the 2012 B.C. Summer Games. More than 2,600 athletes, their coaches and families are in Surrey for opening ceremonies...

The a handful of Nelson Neptunes continue to shine in the pool as the Kootenay Summer Swim Association season grinds to a halt. The Neptunes finished fifth overall at the recent Castlegar Aquanauts meet Sunday in the Sunflower City. “I was amazed with the results of this meet,” said Neptune skipper Rebecca Afford. “The swimmers...

Thankfully, Mother Nature decided to take the night off rainwise, allowing the Nelson Mixed Slopitch League to begin the run to the championship game Sunday at Queen Elizabeth Park. On the diamonds first was Cardinals against Our Glass in B-Division play. Thursday its defending champions Jackson's Hole against Takeouts at 6...

Balfour golf pros Braden Chown and Craig Wilkinson went above and beyond a normal round of golf with friends after the duo raised more than $1,000 for the ALS Society of B.C. Chown and Wilkinson managed the feat by golfing 360 holes at the Balfour Golf Course during the annual Golfathon for ALS in June. During the month of ...

The sun was shining no potential National Team players at the Soccer Quest camp held this past week at the Lakeside Pitch. Players from tots to teenager flocked to the pitch to receive expert coaching from the Quest staff. The Soccer Quest camps, in partnership with Vancouver Whitecaps FC to help deliver development summer ...