Sports

A full night of amateur MMA action featuring seven Comox Valley fighters goes Saturday night in Campbell River when King of the Rock hits the Thunderbird Hall.

The call is out to 14-to 18-year-olds to register for the 29th annual Royal LePage Comox Valley Snow to Surf Adventure Relay Race.

On Wednesday Feb. 2 I received a phone call from Len Everet, B.C. director of Ducks Unlimited Canada. He was inviting me to a celebration of the genesis of Bear Creek Nature Park (161 acres) on the Oyster River and the creation of a conservation covenant granted by the Evans Family, owners of Shelter Point Farms, consisting of 357 acres of fields and environmentally sensitive foreshore on the Oyster River Estuary to Ducks Unlimited Canada.

The young and experienced shone like stars at last Sunday’s Cedar 12K Road Race, just south of Nanaimo. The hilly course is one of the most challenging in the eight-race Island Running Series and 32 Comox Valley runners were up to the challenge and brought home medals.

Vancouver Island’s freestyle snowboarders, better known as Mt. Washington’s VI Riders, and VI coach Jason Hogan took their expertise and skills to Mt. Seymour’s BCSA Provincial Slopestyle Competition last weekend.

The Vanier Towhees took down the Brooks Thunderbirds 78-55 in a North-North Island League AAA senior boys basketball make-up game Monday afternoon in Courtenay.

Two members of the Comox Valley Kickers rugby team are part of the Vancouver Island Selects squad that is taking on the Canada U17 team this afternoon at Shawnigan Lake School at 3 p.m.

The Rice Toyota Atom A Chiefs scooped the silver medal at a Feb. 4-6 minor hockey Atom development tournament in Campbell River.

A dramatic shootout victory earned the Hamilton Logging Midget hockey team top spot at a weekend tournament in Port McNeill.

They’re no longer in the driver’s seat, but the ride is not over just yet for the Comox Valley Glacier Kings.