Category Archives: Local Sports
Golf remains last sport standing, presents opportunity to get outside
KAMLOOPS - The sound of a club striking the ball has never sounded so sweet during this global pandemic. Instead of being trapped at home, golfers are among the few amateurs that can get out to play a...
Apr 09, 2020 Golfers are flocking to courses in Kamloops as the last sport available to them during COVID-19 (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Blazers' goalie Garand named top scholastic athlete in WHL's Western Conference
KAMLOOPS - In his first year as the Kamloops Blazers starting goaltender,17-year-old Dylan Garand has been awarded the Daryl K. (Doc) Seaman Memorial Trophy as the WHL Western Conference Scholastic Pl...
Apr 09, 2020 Image Credit: Kamloops Blazers/Allen Douglas
From the Vault -- a Kamloops appearance by Allan Eagleson before his fall from grace.
KAMLOOPS --- Before what we now know as the Kamloops Sports Hall of Fame and Sports Council Athletes of the year awards, Big Brothers and sisters of Kamloops held an annual Sportsmans Banquet.Along wi...
Apr 08, 2020 Image credit: Evan Fitzer
2020 B.C. champion Corryn Brown rink goes back to the future
KAMLOOPS ---- The Corryn Brown rink is going back to the future.Samantha Fisher is re-joining the team at lead for the 2020-21 curlling season.She will take the place of Ashley Klymchuk, who is due to...
Apr 08, 2020 Image credit: contributed
WHL names first all-stars for 2019-20 season
KAMLOOPS ---- Blazers forward Connor Zary and Portland Winterhawks defenceman Johnny Ludvig have been named to the Western Hockey League Western Conference first all-star team.Zary scored 38 goals and...
Apr 07, 2020 Image credit: Evan Fitzer
From the vault - the longest game in KIJHL history - St. Patrick's Day, 2008
KAMLOOPS ---- It's one of the most memorable and exciting playoff game in Kamloops junior hockey history --- and this one wasn't the Blazers.March 17, 2008 --- St. Patrick's Day --- the Kamloops Storm...
Apr 06, 2020 Image credit: Evan Fitzer
Blazers goaltender Rayce Ramsay - remembering Humboldt
KAMLOOPS --- Two years ago today, April 6, 2018, began like any other normal day.It was a Friday.By the end of the day, it was anything but normal.A bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos hockey team on th...
Apr 06, 2020 Image credit: contributed
Blazers Franklin named WHL all-star
KAMLOOPS --- Blazers forward and team captain Zane Franklin has been named to the Western Hockey League second all-star team.Franklin led the Blazers in scoring in the 2019-20 season with 29 goals, 62...
Apr 06, 2020 Image credit: Evan Fitzer
From the sports vault the Kam High Red Devils 1990 B.C. High School football championship
KAMLOOPS --- In the 12 seasons between 1979 and 1990 no high school football team in the province was a dominant as the Kam High Red Devils.The Red Devils went to the provincial final seven times, win...
Apr 03, 2020 Image credit: Evan Fitzer
Pendrel's season on hold --- what's in the future?
KAMLOOPS --- Catharine Pendrel has been a member of the Canadian National Cross Country Mountain Bike Team since 2004.Last December Canadian Cycling Magazine named Pendrel the athlete of the decade --...
Apr 03, 2020 Image credit: contributed
