Category Archives: Local Sports
Venom win 3rd straight TOJLL Championship
KAMLOOPS - It was a story book ending for another Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse championship for the Kamloops Venom. The Venom defeated the Vernon Tigers 10-9 in overtime in the fifth and deciding...
Jul 26, 2017
Kelly Olynyk feels he's a good fit in Miami, has fond memories from Boston
KAMLOOPS - It’s been an offseason of change for Kelly Olynyk. First, learning the Boston Celtics, the team with which he spent his first four NBA seasons, were going to move on without him. Then...
Jul 25, 2017
Kelly Olynyk trying to keep numbers down in effort to maintain a more personal camp
KAMLOOPS - Kelly Olynyk is front and centre again at his own basketball camp in Kamloops, and he wouldn’t want it any other way. He enjoy the coaching and interaction with the kids, putting his ...
Jul 24, 2017
Junior lacrosse series goes to 5th and final game
VERNON - The Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse final will go to a 5th and deciding game. Last night in Vernon, the Tigers edged the Kamloops Venom 7-6 in a low-scoring affair to force the fifth and de...
Jul 24, 2017
Venom hope to wrap up Junior Lacrosse title tonight
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Venom will try to wrap up their Junior Lacrosse series against Vernon tonight. The Venom take a 2-1 lead in their best-of-five series against the Tigers as they play game 4 in ...
Jul 23, 2017
Venom score late to take series lead over Vernon in lacrosse final
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Venom got a goal from Riley Lawryk with 1:33 to play to give the Venom a 13-12 victory over the Vernon Tigers and a 2-1 lead in their best of five series for the Thompson Okana...
Jul 22, 2017
Venom, Tigers lacrosse rivalry one of the best in Kamloops sports
KAMLOOPS - It’s the sixth straight year the Kamloops Venom and Vernon Tigers have met in the Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League final, and that has helped bred one of the more heated rival...
Jul 21, 2017
TOJLL final even after two games
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Venom scored just 2 goals on Wednesday night, and allowed 12 in a 12-2 loss on the road as the Vernon Tigers tied the Best-of-5 TOJLL Final 1-1. Vernon lead 4-0 after 20 minute...
Jul 20, 2017
Armstrong athlete from Armstrong wins gold at Indigenious Games
KAMLOOPS - Dylan Armstrong is a champion, and now he’s coaching champions. Armstrong is the Team B.C. throws coach at the North American Indigenous Games in Toronto. Today one of Armstrongs athl...
Jul 19, 2017
Calder Cup coming to Kamloops next week
KAMLOOPS - The Calder Cup is coming to Kamloops next week. Joe Hicketts of the American Hockey League champion Grand Rapids Griffins will have his day with the league’s championship trophy next ...
Jul 18, 2017
