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North Okanagan Minor Hockey Association’s U15 Derksen Associated Ready Mix Recreation Knights capped off a near perfect season by winning hte Okanagan district championship in Kamloops March 19. (Contributed)

North Okanagan U15 Knights blank foes to cap dream season

Knights capture Okanagan minor hockey district title; lose one game all season

 

Vernon’s Alex Kazimer (left) and Charlee Buckley from Lincoln Lanes won the Seniors Division of the Youth Doubles Bowling Zone Finals at their home lanes. The duo now advances to the provincial finals April 1 in Vancouver. (Facebook photo)

Vernon bowlers double their fun at zone finals

Two teams from Lincoln Lanes qualify for B.C. Youth Doubles Championships April 1 in Vancouver

 

The Vernon Pubmasters Darts League has resumed after missing the 2020-21 season due to COVID. (File photo)

Bullseye: Vernon dart league stats

Vernon Pubmasters League results

 

The Armstrong Shamrocks (white) and Vernon Tigers have received permission from the Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League to merge their organizations into one for the 2023 season. (Morning Star- file photo)

Vernon Tigers, Armstrong Shamrocks merge junior lacrosse clubs

Move also affects Salmon Arm; team to play home games in all three cities

The Armstrong Shamrocks (white) and Vernon Tigers have received permission from the Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League to merge their organizations into one for the 2023 season. (Morning Star- file photo)
The Kelowna Rockets are heading to the 2023 WHL Playoffs. (@kelowna_rockets/Twitter)

Kelowna Rockets clinch playoff spot in Spokane

They clinched the final playoff spot in the Western Conference

The Kelowna Rockets are heading to the 2023 WHL Playoffs. (@kelowna_rockets/Twitter)
Spallumcheen’s Ina Forrest and Team Canada have qualified for the semifinals at the 2023 World Wheelchair Curling Championships in Richmond. (World Curling Federation/Cheyenne Boone)

North Okanagan curler helps Canada into final four at World Wheelchair finals

Spallumcheen’s Ina Forrest and her Team Canada mates play Saturday; finished second at 9-2

Spallumcheen’s Ina Forrest and Team Canada have qualified for the semifinals at the 2023 World Wheelchair Curling Championships in Richmond. (World Curling Federation/Cheyenne Boone)
The Vernon Pubmasters Darts League has resumed after missing the 2020-21 season due to COVID. (File photo)

Bullseye: Vernon dart league stats

Vernon Pubmasters League results

The Vernon Pubmasters Darts League has resumed after missing the 2020-21 season due to COVID. (File photo)
Kelowna coaches and athletes were recognized for their athletic accomplishments throughout the last year on Wednesday night (March 8) at the Mary Irwin Theatre (Rotary Centre of the Arts). (Contributed)

Szturc, Iginla among other Kelowna athletes recognized by City and PacificSport

Athletes from the 2022 Summer and Winter Canada Games and BC Games were also recognized

Kelowna coaches and athletes were recognized for their athletic accomplishments throughout the last year on Wednesday night (March 8) at the Mary Irwin Theatre (Rotary Centre of the Arts). (Contributed)
Ina Forrest fist pumps a competitor at the World Wheelchair Curling Championship 2023, Richmond, Canada. (WCF/Cheyenne Boone)

Lucky seven for Spallumcheen female wheelchair curler

Ina Forrest and Team Canada rattle off 7 consecutive wins at World Championships in Richmond

Ina Forrest fist pumps a competitor at the World Wheelchair Curling Championship 2023, Richmond, Canada. (WCF/Cheyenne Boone)
North Okanagan members of Okanagan Para Swimming including (from left) coach Renate Terpstra of Vernon, and swimmers Jacob Brayshaw of Coldstream and Brea Duncan of Armstrong had successful results at the B.C. Winter Provincial Swimming Championships in Victoria. The trio swim and coach for Penticton’s KISU Club, as does Vernon swimmer Senna Entner, missing fromt he photo. (Facebook photo)

North Okanagan Para swimmers rock B.C. Winter provincials

Brea Duncan, Senna Entner and Jacob Brayshaw return with medals, records, personal best times

North Okanagan members of Okanagan Para Swimming including (from left) coach Renate Terpstra of Vernon, and swimmers Jacob Brayshaw of Coldstream and Brea Duncan of Armstrong had successful results at the B.C. Winter Provincial Swimming Championships in Victoria. The trio swim and coach for Penticton’s KISU Club, as does Vernon swimmer Senna Entner, missing fromt he photo. (Facebook photo)
Vernon’s Kobe Grant has been named the Manitoba Junior A Hockey League’s Ed Belfour Award winner as the league’s top goalie. Grant, 20, plays for the Swan Valley Stampeders. (Swan Valley Stampeders photo)

Vernon goalie dives into Manitoba Hockey League honour with Swan Valley

Kobe Grant, 20, of the Swan Valley Stampeders is the league’s Ed Belfour Award winner as top goalie

Vernon’s Kobe Grant has been named the Manitoba Junior A Hockey League’s Ed Belfour Award winner as the league’s top goalie. Grant, 20, plays for the Swan Valley Stampeders. (Swan Valley Stampeders photo)
Team B.C. mobs goalie Rebecca Noble of Delta following a 3-0 win over Nova Scotia in the gold-medal game of women’s hockey Sunday, March 5, at the Canada Winter Games in Charlottetown. (Facebook photo)

Okanagan women, Shuswap coach celebrate hockey gold

Team B.C. wins first-ever women’s hockey gold medal at Canada Winter Games in PEI

Team B.C. mobs goalie Rebecca Noble of Delta following a 3-0 win over Nova Scotia in the gold-medal game of women’s hockey Sunday, March 5, at the Canada Winter Games in Charlottetown. (Facebook photo)
Vernon’s Aidan Wattie (9) has been selected to play for Canada’s Development Team at a box lacrosse international tournament in Australia starting March 11. (Morning Star - file photo)

Vernon lacrosse player selected to Canada squad

Aidan Wattie, 16, will play at international box lacrosse tournament in Australia

Vernon’s Aidan Wattie (9) has been selected to play for Canada’s Development Team at a box lacrosse international tournament in Australia starting March 11. (Morning Star - file photo)
Enderby's Marni Abbott-Peter (second row, in grey, second from right) was an assistant coach with Team B.C. that won the province's first-ever Canada Winter Games gold medal in wheelchair basketball in Prince Edward Island. (Darrell Theriault Photo)

Enderby wheelchair sports legend collects Canada Games gold

Marni Abbott-Peter an assistant coach with Team B.C.; Vernon biathlete Parker Munroe pockets silver

Enderby's Marni Abbott-Peter (second row, in grey, second from right) was an assistant coach with Team B.C. that won the province's first-ever Canada Winter Games gold medal in wheelchair basketball in Prince Edward Island. (Darrell Theriault Photo)
The Okanagan champion Kalamalka Lakers of Coldstream have been seeded eighth for the 16-team B.C. High School Senior Girls AA Basketball finals March 1-4 in Langley. (Contributed)

Coldstream girls ranked No. 8 for B.C. basketball finals

Kal Lakers, VSS Panthers, Seaton Sonics all taking part in B.C. high school basketball championships

The Okanagan champion Kalamalka Lakers of Coldstream have been seeded eighth for the 16-team B.C. High School Senior Girls AA Basketball finals March 1-4 in Langley. (Contributed)
Vernon’s Tate Garrod (centre) celebrates his gold-medal win at the Canada Winter Games in PEI with B.C. teammate and silver medalist Adam Mulvihill of Squamish (left) and Jeremy Gagné of Quebec, who won bronze. (David Keenan Photo)

Vernon skier soars to Canada Games gold

Tate Garrod wins gold in men’s slopestyle freestyle skiing in PEI

Vernon’s Tate Garrod (centre) celebrates his gold-medal win at the Canada Winter Games in PEI with B.C. teammate and silver medalist Adam Mulvihill of Squamish (left) and Jeremy Gagné of Quebec, who won bronze. (David Keenan Photo)
Jeff Curtis of the Vernon Panthers (with ball) tries to avoid having a shot blocked by a South Okanagan Secondary (Oliver) Hornets defender during the Okanagan Valley Junior Boys Basketball Championshps Friday, Feb. 17, at the Panther Pit. (Roger Knox - Morning Star)

Vernon Panthers draw Surrey school for B.C. opener

Okanagan Valley runners-up VSS to play Elgin Park at 53rd annual B.C. Jr. Boys Basketball finals

Jeff Curtis of the Vernon Panthers (with ball) tries to avoid having a shot blocked by a South Okanagan Secondary (Oliver) Hornets defender during the Okanagan Valley Junior Boys Basketball Championshps Friday, Feb. 17, at the Panther Pit. (Roger Knox - Morning Star)
Registration for Vernon and District Minor Football Association’s flag football program for 2023 is now open. (Contributed)

Vernon flag football returns following record year

Minor football’s popular April-June, non-contact game, has three divisions: U10, U12, U14

Registration for Vernon and District Minor Football Association’s flag football program for 2023 is now open. (Contributed)
The Kalamalka Lakers of Coldstream rallied in the second half to defeat the hometown Westsyde Whundas of Kamloops 48-45 in the Okanagan Valley Senior Girls AA Basketball Championships Saturday, Feb. 18. The Lakers now advance to the B.C. finals March 1-4 in Langley. (Contributed)

Coldstream’s Lakers use second-half rally to win Okanagan title

Kalamalka beats Westsyde 48-45 in Okanagan Senior Girls AA Basketball final; advance to B.C.s

The Kalamalka Lakers of Coldstream rallied in the second half to defeat the hometown Westsyde Whundas of Kamloops 48-45 in the Okanagan Valley Senior Girls AA Basketball Championships Saturday, Feb. 18. The Lakers now advance to the B.C. finals March 1-4 in Langley. (Contributed)
The Vernon Pubmasters Darts League has resumed after missing the 2020-21 season due to COVID. (File photo)

Bullseye: Vernon dart league stats

Vernon Pubmasters League results, Jan. 18

The Vernon Pubmasters Darts League has resumed after missing the 2020-21 season due to COVID. (File photo)
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