Local Sports

The Dawson Creek Seals will be front and centre this weekend cheering as loud as they can and swimming as fast as they can as the local summer swim club takes its turn hosting the region's second meet of the season.

Nathan Sales got off to a quick start when the horn sounded, grabbed the rail early and rode his lead to the fastest time of the night in the first of four nights of Western Chuckwagon Association racing Thursday at the Dawson Creek fairgrounds.

The Fort St. John Paladin Black Sox dealt the Peace River Stampeders their first loss in Wheatbelt Baseball League action this season during a doubleheader last weekend.

Focus and Kal Tire are moving onto the finals of the Senior Boys in Spring League. Kal Tire took a 72-51 win over Northern Valve in Tuesday's semifinal. Mario Seymour and Landon Churchill of Kal Tire said it was a good, well-fought game.

The Northwest Junior Hockey League says it has a good product and plans to promote itself more both locally and farther away over the coming years. "I think it's high time. We cover more area than any other league," said NWJHL president Al Spence.

In Tuesday's Senior Girls semifinal games, Lube-X and D. Bauer advanced to the Spring League basketball finals to be played next week. D. Bauer went in ranked number one in their game against the fourth seeded Focus, they took a 36-32 win. D.

Dawson Creek has qualified six of its high school rodeo competitors for the B.C.

DAWSON CREEK - Horse Lake will have a team in the North Peace Hockey League in the 2010-11 season after being accepted into the senior men's hockey league earlier this week.

Dawson Creek chuckwagon fans will get an early taste of the sport Thursday through Sunday when the Western Chuckwagon Association rolls into town for four nights of racing.

The Fort St. John Paladin Black Sox took a 6-1 loss to the Rycroft Rage Tuesday night. The two teams were tied 1-1 going into the seventh when the Rage's Jace Zahara started a five-run rally.