Sports

The Nanaimo Coal Miners intend to have better luck in the Interior this weekend than they did last weekend. The men’s baseball team is entered into Kelowna’s Canada Baseball Blast tournament starting Thursday (June 30).

White Rapids athletes posted fast times earlier this month at the Oak Bay Orcas Invitational meet in Victoria June 18-19.

The Hub City Paving Pirates had a chance to bump a slump, but stranded too many baserunners. The premier Pirates lost 3-2 to the Victoria Mariners in nine innings Tuesday night at Serauxmen Stadium.

Two Nanaimo Timbermen Masters Lacrosse Club teams are off to the mainland this week for the Western Canadian Masters Lacrosse Championships in Burnaby Friday (July 1) through Sunday.

The Nanaimo Timbermen couldn’t quite force the outcome they wanted on Sunday. The Coastal Windows Timbermen senior A lacrosse team was defeated 9-6 in overtime by the New Westminster Salmonbellies that night at Frank Crane Arena.

Serauxmen Stadium was the site of the longest game in B.C. Junior Premier Baseball League history on Saturday, a 15-inning affair.

The Nanaimo Pirates aren’t quite at full strength these days, so they weren’t able to squeeze out a winning weekend.

The Nanaimo Timbermen junior A lacrosse team lost a pair of road games, including one they felt they really needed.

With two weeks until the big race, many of Nanaimo’s dragon boat teams are getting close to peak paddling form. Valhalla Pure Outfitters Nanaimo Paddlefest was held Saturday at Maffeo Sutton Park.

A one-goal loss to one of the league’s best teams shouldn’t really be cause for alarm. But as other clubs in the West Coast Senior Lacrosse Association improve, the DBL Timbermen don’t want to be left behind.