Melanson gets better of Coletti for second straight tourney, captures Men's Qualifier
For the second week in a row Jordan Melanson got the better of his Granite Pointe teammate.Melanson shot a 1-under-par 71 to edge Josh Coletti by a stroke to claim the title at the Zone One West Kootenay Men’s Qualifying Tournament Sunday at Granite Pointe.The captain of the Simon Fraser University Men's golf team out dueled...
Nelsonites pack NDCC Arena for latest stop on West Kootenay Flat Track Roller Derby circuit
By Bruce Fuhr The Nelson Daily Sports Gnarlies Angels of Rossland continued to hold down the penthouse suite. The Dam City Rollers of Castlegar, savouring win number one on the club’s history book, are slowly, but surely, making their way up the to the top. And the Killjoys and Lumber Jackies of Nelson, well, these […]
Flat Track Roller Derby stops in Nelson Saturday
The West Kootenay Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby League is coming to Nelson. The five-team league makes its inaugural stop in the Heritage City Saturday at the Nelson and District Community Complex Arena. Doors open at 6 p.m. with the first game going at 7 p.m. between Nelson’s Lumber Jackets and the high flying Gnarlies […]
Frame wows the crowd at Kaslo May Days Skateboard event
Trevor Frame of Castlegar entertained the crowd to claim the 15-plus age group at the SK8 event of the 2011 Kootenay Skateboard series this past weekend during May Days celebrations in Kaslo. Frame out-pointed Acquilla Clarke of the Sunflower City during the high-octane event. Raven Truth of Nelson was third. In the 14-year division Levi […]
Out There: Soulful, sunny and serene. Nature's symphony provides the soundtrack to some May 2-4 turns
Victoria Day long weekend. The May two-four. The unofficial start of summer. Cottages are opened, tent trailers are pulled out and RV’s take to the highway. It’s really the first great escape of the year for many Canadians; The first chance to truly shed the shackles of hibernation and re-emerge into the outdoors. A timely...
Five players garner spots on Zone One West Kootenay Jr Golf Team
By The Nelson Daily Sports Five local golfers will tee it up representing the Zone One West Kootenay at the B.C. Junior Championship July 5-8 at the Rossland/Trail Country Club. Tanner Kopan of Christina Lake, Redstone’s Kevin Bennett, Garrett Underwood of Champion Lakes and Brenan Moroney of Rossland/Trail were awarded berths in the tournament following […]
Kinrade, B-Sens off to Calder Cup Final after sweeping Checkers
By The Nelson Daily Sports In just his second season as a professional, Nelson’s Geoff Kinrade is playing for the American Hockey League’s Calder Cup Championship. Kinrade & the Binghamton Senators scored a 4-3 home-ice victory over the Charlotte Checkers Wednesday night to sweep the Eastern Conference Final 4-0, and a berth in the Calder […]
BC Seniors Games all fired up
The countdown to the BC Seniors Games has officially begun after a torchlighting ceremony in Castlegar last night. More than 100 people turned out to watch the torch being lit at 8 p.m. at the Castlegar Complex, after words from games organizers, Castlegar mayor Lawrence Chernoff, Nelson city councillor Deb Kozak, Trail mayor Dieter Bogs, […]
Moroney fires a sizzling 66 to breeze to Granite Pointe title
By The Nelson Daily Sports Rossland/Trail’s Brenan Moroney destroyed the field en route to winning the Granite Pointe stop on the Zone One West Kootenay Junior Golf tournament Sunday in Nelson. Moroney shot an amazing 6-under-par 66 to claim the tourney by 10 shots over Kevin Bennett of Redstone in Rossland and Champion Lakes golfer […]
Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby packs in the crowds
By Bruce FuhrThe Nelson Daily Sports The Castlegar Community Complex was rocking Friday night. But it wasn’t the Rebels on a run to the KIJHL title playing Canada’s game that people were flocking to see. No, the attraction sparking the attention of spectators from Nelson to Nakusp was the West Kootenay Women’s Flat Track Roller […]
