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Black Creek鈥檚 Schulte Racing Team (SRT) finished the 2022 drag race season with two wins in a row.

The 2021 season ended with the Comox Valley Raiders midget football team on the three-yard line, one good push from forcing overtime in the B.C. championship.

Soccer Canada has named Liam Mackenzie of Comox to the Under-17 national team for a domestic camp in Montreal.

Highland鈥檚 senior girls鈥� volleyball team demonstrated another level of improvement on the weekend at the VIU Mariners tournament. During round-robin and seeding for playoffs, Highland won and lost one match. The last match, for second place and seeding in the gold division on Saturday, was against Burnaby鈥檚 Moscrop Secondary. Highland was up 15-8 in the first set but could not maintain the lead. Moscrop tied it 22-22, and won 25-23.

The Comox Valley Kickers Women narrowly beat the Castaway Wanderers (鈥淐W鈥�) Saturday at Cumberland Village Park. This was the second time the teams met this season, but with a different result this time around. The Kickers won 29-26 with Dara DeMarce, Lauren Sargent, Lisa Korcsmaros, Jessica Nikkel and Daris Tendler Forberg each scoring a try. Christina Green-Speck added two converts.

The Comox Valley Glacier Kings won 5-0 Wednesday in Port Alberni, and lost a 7-6 shootout at home Saturday against Saanich.

The North Island women鈥檚 slopitch team 鈥� the Island Girls-Hit for Brains 鈥� had four wins and no losses in the round-robin, but fell short in the gold medal game at the 55+ B.C. Games, Sept. 13-17 in Victoria.

Emmy Lan of Comox has won a world title in mountain biking.

A 35-page paper suggests Hockey Canada needs to recognize junior A as a legit development path

Comox Valley United beat the Westcastle Lakers of Victoria 1-0 in men鈥檚 soccer action Saturday at the Vanier turf field.