Category Archives: Local Sports
Venom drop Game 2, South Okanagan can wrap up first league title on Tuesday
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Venom are on the brink of elimination in the Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League final. The Venom lost 12-9 on Sunday night in Oliver to the South Okanagan Flames. The Fla...
Jul 15, 2019 The Kamloops Venom are down 2-0 in the best-of-five championship series following Sunday's 12-9 defeat in Game 2 on Sunday.
Kamloops Venom drop Game 1 of league final in double overtime
KAMLOOPS --- The Venom looked to have the opening game of the Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League final in control. But the visiting South Okanagan Flames, in their first-ever league final, mount...
Jul 13, 2019 The Venom dropped a 16-15 double overtime decision in Game 1 of the Thompson-Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League final on Friday night.
Kamloops Venom open lacrosse league final tonight against South Okanagan
KAMLOOPS - The Thompson-Okanagan Junior Lacross League final begins Friday night at Memorial Arena. For the first time in eight years, however, the Kamloops Venom have a different opponent in the best...
Jul 12, 2019 Image credit:Kamloops Venom
Kamloops pole vaulter has overcome many obstacles to achieve great things in athletics
KAMLOOPS - In sports, games are sometimes referred to as 'do or die.' For athletes, it can be easy to blow a bad performance on the field or the ice out of proportion. However, when you go through a r...
Jul 12, 2019 Kamloops pole vaulter Spencer Allen in action with the University of Alberta.
Defending-champion HD Bombers take Game 1 in Kamloops fastball league final
KAMLOOPS - The HD Bombers are one win away from their third straight Kamloops Major Men's Fastball championship. The Bombers, led by winning pitcher Adam Donnelly, took Game 1 of the league's champion...
Jul 12, 2019 The championship series in the Kamloops Major Men's Fastpitch League begins Thursday at Charles Anderson Stadium
LaRoche celebrating 35 years since winning world kickboxing championship in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - It was before any Memorial Cups, Briers or Canada Games.Still eight years before the Riverside Coliseum. On a steamy July night 35 years ago Memorial Arena was the place to be - the centre ...
Jul 11, 2019 Kamloops' Tom LaRoche won the world kickboxing championship at home on July 12, 1984 (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Kamloops swimmer McRae to take on the open waters again
KAMLOOPS - Ryley McRae continues to add to his already impressive swimming resume. The Kamloops native and member of both the Thompson Rivers University WolfPack and Kamloops Classics swim teams is pr...
Jul 11, 2019 Kamloops Classics swimmer Ryley McRae is competing in an international open water event July 20-21 (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Future WolfPack volleyball player dreamed of going to TRU since she was young
KAMLOOPS - Ellie Oestreich is not a familiar name around these parts of the province, but in a couple years she could be a household name with the TRU WolfPack.This week, Oestreich is in Kamloops, her...
Jul 10, 2019 TRU recruit Ellie Oestreich is in Kamloops this week, her future home, as part of the U-17 Team BC squad (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Championship rematch in the Kamloops men's fastpitch league
KAMLOOPS - The championship series is set in the Kamloops Major Men's Fastpitch League. It will be a rematch of the last two finals. The HD Bombers, the champions in 2017 and 2018, will defend their t...
Jul 10, 2019 The championship series in the Kamloops Major Men's Fastpitch League begins Thursday at Charles Anderson Stadium
Golf pros from Kamloops win their first PGA of BC title
KAMLOOPS - A pair of golf pros from the Kamloops Golf & Country Club are coming home with some hardware. Alec Hubert and Ian Henson combined to win the 2019 PGA of BC Pro-Assistant Championship on...
Jul 10, 2019 Ian Henson (left) and Alec Hubert won the 2019 PGA of BC Pro-Assistant Championship in Invermere on Tuesday (Image Credit: PGA of BC)
