Part Three

SEPTEMBER

Taylor Green was with the Canadian senior men鈥檚 baseball team in Puerto Rico for the Pan Am Games and World Cup Qualification Tournament.

Local athletes led the way at the Mind Over Mountain Adventure Race in Cumberland.

Otto Schulte steered his Ford Falcon to a seventh career drag race championship.

The host Zone 2 came out with the most medals at the BC Seniors Games, co-hosted by the Comox Valley and Campbell River.

Comox Valley finished second at the Westerley women鈥檚 field hockey tournament in Nanaimo.

Nine Comox Valley competitors hauled in medals at the Special Olympics National Summer Games in London, Ont.

An attempt to revive men鈥檚 flag football in the Comox Valley was unsuccessful.

Canada defeated the USA at the annual demo derby at Saratoga Speedway.

Comox Valley United U16 boys soccer team went undefeated on a tour of the United Kingdom.

The Comox Valley Boxing Club鈥檚 second annual Full Throttle Fight Night was a big success in Cumberland.

OCTOBER

The Marine Harvest Canadians lost in the semifinals of the MSBL World Series in Phoenix, Arizona.

Ongoing bad blood between the Comox Valley Glacier Kings and Oceanside Generals resulted in almost 60 game misconducts being handed out by the VIJHL.

Morgan Clausen helped the SAIT Trojans to fourth place at the Alberta College Athletic Conference men鈥檚 soccer championships.

The Mid-Islad Blazers men鈥檚 AA hockey team was enjoying mixed success.

Alaina Millar was Kid Captain at a B.C. Lions football game.

Happy鈥檚 Source for Sports Indians finally won the Komoux Masters Real Baseball League championship.

Martin Reader and Chaim Schalk won the Canadian beach volley championship in Toronto.

A plaque was erected at Glacier Gardens Arena honouring Ty and Tia Wishart for all their help with the Silver Wing Totems sports camp.

NOVEMBER

Comox Valley Boxing Club Bulldog MMA competitor Bill Fraser grabbed international TV time when he appeared on a big card in Edmonton.

A quick start did not translate into a good finish for the Comox Valley Cubs at the Roy Hobbs World Series in Fort Myers, Fla.

Two local teams competed at the inaugural Haley Wickenheiser International Women鈥檚 Hockey Festival in Burnaby.

Canadian lawn bowling champ Vern Greenhill was at the world singles championship at Norfolk Island in Australia.

The Comox Valley Baseball Association needed an infusion of new volunteers on its executive in order to avoid having to fold.

Brett McLean was named to the Canadian team that will play in the Spengler Cup in Switzerland.

Competing in the ATV division, Cumberland鈥檚 Kye Walstrom was part of the winning team at the gruelling Baja 1000.

Dashing through the snow, Cam Levins captured the Canadian senior men鈥檚 cross-country championship in Guelph, Ont.

DECEMBER

Renowned sports columnists Jim Taylor was at the Courtenay Library to read from his latest book, And to Think I Got in Free! Highlights from 50 Years on the Sports Beat.

Chosen by the Province newspaper as the top high school boys volleyball player in B.C., heavily-recruited Vanier Towhee Brad Gunter decided to join the Thompson Rivers University WolfPack of Kamloops for the 2011-12 Canada West season.

Another busy season of motocross wrapped up on Vancouver Island with the annual awards banquet in Duncan.

Another no-show by the Westshore Stingers, this one against the Comox Valley Glacier Kings, was the final straw before the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League suspended the lovable losers for the remainder of the season.

Ashley Cousens was named BCCAA female volleyball Athlete of the Week for her sterling play with the Capilano University Blues.

Connor Willis was set to become Courtenay鈥檚 third full rugby international after the 16-year-old Vanier centre was selected to Canada鈥檚 U17 squad.

The Queen鈥檚 University Gaels men鈥檚 volleyball team was in the Valley for an intrasquad game and clinic by coach Brenda Willis, both fundraisers for the CV Strikers volleyball club.

Nine locals were recognized as Community Sport Heroes by Sport BC.