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Shorts BASEBALL Get ready for a lot of baseball. A month-long stretch of baseball in Prince George that features two provincial championships and one national tournament begins on Thursday with the start of the B.C. Minor Baseball Association Midget AA Championships. The 10-team tournament is taking place at Citizen Field and Rotary Park and will run through the weekend. The host IDL Midget Knights get their schedule started on Thursday at noon against Cloverdale at Citizen Field. The B.C. senior provincials (Aug. 3 to 6) and the RE/MAX Baseball Canada Senior Championship (Aug. 23 to 26) are also coming to Prince George.
ARCA WEST The 2012 ARCA West OK Tire Sportsman Series made its fourth of six tour stops on Saturday evening, as the Gold Pan Speedway in Quesnel hosted the Billy Barker Days 100. Mark Berriau of Penticton won the 100lap main event. Prince George riders Logan Jewell and Bob Williams finished fourth and fifth respectively.
Soccer league into homestretch ALISTAIR MCINNIS
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The North Cariboo Senior Soccer League is entering the final month of its regular season. With five weeks until the final date of league action on Aug. 29, games start becoming more significant as the playoffs approach. With championship games in mid-September, and the season having started on May 23, the NCSSL is also at the halfway point of its 2012 campaign. It’s been a different season, as the league made changes to its divisional structure. Instead of having Division 1 and 2 categories, the NCSSL formed an Open Division for top players of all ages. Nine teams entered the Open Division. The league also a fourteam 30+ Division, while another five squads play in the 45+ Division, known previously as the Masters. “So far, it seems to have accomplished what we set out to do,” NCSSL registrar Glen Thompson said. “Our main concern was the Open Division, of course, and I think it’s given the opportunity for a lot more of the youth players to be involved in the game. Unfortunately the Kodiaks U-18 team has folded up this year after their provincials.” The Prince George Youth Soccer Association U-18 Kodiaks competed in the Open Division until representing the region at B.C. Soccer Association Youth Provincial B Cup championships in Aldergrove from July 5 to 8. Players from that squad who wanted to continue competing in the NCSSL this season were put through a draft with newcomers on Monday. League standings have the Caribou Brewmasters leading the Open Division with six wins,
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Assante United FC goalkeeper Peter Brbot makes a save on Queensway Auto World player Ciro Caceres during their North Cariboo Senior Soccer League game on Sunday afternoon. Queensway Auto World won the 30+ Division contest by a 2-1 score. three losses and one tie (6-3-1) for 19 points in 10 games. Mr. Jake’s Steakhouse sits in second place at 5-2-3, only one point behind. The other six teams in the division, with records in parenthesis, are: Grewal Group (5-5-1), Mann Dental (4-3-3), the PGYSA U-17 Kodiaks (4-3-3), Global Securities (4-5-1), Silent Cabinets (4-50) and Revolution FC (3-6-2). Powerhouse leads the 30+ Division with a 6-4-1 record, one point ahead of Eden Spas (6-5-0). Queensway Auto World (5-5-0) and Assante United FC (3-6-1) round out the group. In the 45+ Division, Subway/ Queensway Motel leads the way with an 9-2-1 mark. The rest of the teams in the five-team divi-
sion are: the RBC DS Gunners (5-3-3), RBC Kickers (4-3-4), NT Air (4-5-2) and Edward Jones Caledonians (1-10-0). The NCSSL schedule resumes tonight with a trio of games. At 6:30 p.m., there will be a pair of 45+ Division games as NT Air meets Subway/Queensway Motel and the RBC DS Gunners play the Edward Jones Caledonians. At 8:30 p.m., Ed Spas plays Assante United FC. In a 30+ Division game on Friday evening, Queensway Auto World plays Powerhouse, another contest scheduled for 6:30 p.m. The NCSSL schedule included a break of about one and a half weeks over the Canada Day long
weekend and in early July. They used that time to do work on the pitch, with the whole complex shut down. One of the North Cariboo fields has been closed down this month for maintenance. Since the league doesn’t hold contests on holiday weekends, the schedule includes another week-long break from Aug. 1 to Aug. 8, a period which covers the August long weekend. No specific dates and times have been set for playoffs, but Thompson is looking at the third weekend of September to hold league finals. “I would imagine it’ll be pretty much the same as in the past. It’ll be the same format.”
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