Hockey:
The Prince George Cougars training camp continues.
82 players will participate in the camp which wraps up with the Rob Charney Cup Intra-squad game Sunday night at 6:00.
The Cougars play four pre-season games; September 5th and 7th in Hinton, Alberta against the Edmonton Oil Kings, September 12th against the Blazers in Kamloops and September 13th (5 PM) against the Blazers in Quesnel.
PG’s regular season starts Friday, September 20th when they host the Portland Winterhawks in the first of a doubleheader at CN Centre.
BCHL
The Prince George Spruce Kings start training camp today (Friday) with a series of practices.
Scrimmages are set to take place over the weekend culminating the annual inter-squad game at 2pm on Sunday from the Kopar Memorial Arena.
MLB:
Milwaukee Brewers @ Toronto Blue Jays
The Jays (78-56) play game four of a 6-game homestand that wraps up on Sunday against the Brewers (83-51).
With 28 games left, the Blue Jays lead A.L. East by 3.5 games over the Boston Red Sox and by 4 games over the New York Yankees.
Canada West Soccer:
Fraser Valley Cascades 2 UNBC Timberwolves 1 (Women’s soccer)
Scarlett Thomas scored in the 90th minute for the T-Wolves who drop to 0-3. The Cascades (1-2) host UNBC tonight at 5:30pm.
The (2-0) UNBC men visit Trinity Western (0-2) tonight and Saturday at 7:15.
BC Football Conference:
The (3-2) Prince George Kodiaks visit the (2-3) Vancouver Island Raiders Saturday night at 5:30 in Nanaimo.
The Kodiaks are in 3rd place in the 7-team league midway through their 10 game regular season.
(The top 4 advance to the playoffs)
The BCFC standings: Okanagan 5-0, Westshore 4-1, Prince George 3-2, Langley 2-2,
Vancouver Island 2-3, Valley 1-4 and Kamloops 0-5.
CFL:
Week 13 of the CFL season begins Sunday (4 PM PT) with (6-4) Winnipeg at (8-2) Saskatchewan.
The Riders lead the West Division by two points over (7-3) Calgary and by four over Winnipeg.
The (5-6) B.C. Lions are idle this week with their next game on Friday, September 5th at Ottawa.
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