Category Archives: Local Sports

NANAIMO - The NightOwls will enter season four of their foray into West Coast League baseball looking for their first playoff appearance.The team went 26-28 in 2024, finishing just outside the playoff...

NANAIMO - The Harbour City's biggest annual ball hockey tournament wrapped at the Harewood Covered Box.The Roadrunners Summer Classic had 20 teams spread across four different divisions, held Saturday...

PARKSVILLE - Two athletes from the Oceanside region will represent the country at the highest level. Swimmer Nicholas Bennett and wheelchair rugby player Trevor Hirschfield were named to Team Canada f...

NANAIMO - Arguably one of the most decorated athletes to ever come out of the Harbour City will lead his country into the Olympic Games' closing ceremony. Ethan Katzberg, along with swimmer Summer McI...

PARIS, FRANCE - A local athlete has wrapped her first Olympic experience.Lantzville's Olivia Lundman and her Richmond-based race partner and coach Evan Dunfee placed 20th in the marathon race walk rel...

NANAIMO - Results were tough to come by for the senior and junior lacrosse teams in the Harbour City this summer.The Senior B and Junior A Timbermen both suffered playoff sweeps while the WLA T-men di...

PARIS, FRANCE - Nanaimo is now home to an active Olympic gold medal winner.Ethan Katzberg outthrew his opponents in the medal round of the men's hammer throw on Sunday, Aug. 4 with a distance of 84.12...

PARIS - Ethan Katzberg is the reigning world champion in the men's hammer throw and the Nanaimo product is looking to add Olympic gold to his resume.On Aug. 2, 22-year-old Katzberg threw for the top r...

NANAIMO - Luke Lavery is returning home to the team he started with in the BCHL. The 2004-born winger was re-acquired from the Coquitlam Express for Cooper Wilson and the playing rights of Matt Lahey....

NANAIMO - The first annual Hornets 7's rugby tournament was played at May Bennett Pioneer Park in Nanaimo on July 27.There were five men's teams and three women's teams in the draw, with Nanaimo winni...