Local Sports

Locals didn’t come away with any trophies at the Slo-Pitch National Championships, but showed they could compete with the best in Canada. The women’s team beat a team from Regina, Saskatchewan, and lost to three teams, all by one run.

Although four days of intermittent rains through the schedule into chaos, SkateSpace organizers worked through the long weekend weather to squeeze every single scheduled skateboard, inline skating and BMX event in the sunny breaks that came their way

The City of Brotherly Love was definitely kind to the Pemberton Laoyam Eagles Dragon Boat Team, which came away from the World Dragon Boat Racing Championships last weekend with two silver medals against the top junior and mixed teams on the planet.

Although there were fewer entries for the second event of the Whistler Downhill Series, and a few of the notable pro bike riders were absent to compete in the national downhill races in Kamloops, the times were even faster than the first race.

From Aug. 20 to 23, the Whistler Golf Course will host North America’s most promising young golfers as a selected stop on the American Junior Golf Association’s Future Links tour.

Whistler riders near the top in their divisions Roland Green gave up his hold on the World Cup leaders’ jersey last weekend, opting to compete in the Tim Horton’s National Mountain Bike Championships at Sun Peaks instead of the sixth World

The annual Whistler-Blackcomb Tennis Tournament, sponsored by Intrawest, is set for Aug. 11 and 12 at the Whistler Valley Tennis Club in Creekside. The event will feature men’s doubles, ladies doubles and mixed doubles competition.

Strong winds were a factor on the fourth stop of the Sea to Sky Junior Tour, at Furry Creek on July 25, but competitors still managed to shoot the odd birdie and post some excellent scores.

The Laoyam Eagles of Pemberton got off to a rocky start at the Long Beach Dragon Boat festival last weekend, losing one of their strongest male paddlers to a viral infection he picked up at hockey camp.

Whistler riders came within seconds of taking the podium on the short and extremely technical course at the fourth Canada Cup downhill of the season, last weekend at Silver Star Mountain in Vernon.