Local Sports

It wasn't the start Dante Zanatta and the Okanagan Challenge were hoping for. However, Zanatta has high hopes for the coming weeks and months as his Pacific Coast Soccer League club rounds into form.

The May Long weekend is filled with many sports events, including the Knox Mountain Hill Climb in Kelowna.

A Liquid Lightning Swim Club contingent of 40 swimmers garnered 37 gold, 29 silver and 17 bronze medals at the third annual Long Course Invitational held at the H2O Centre in Kelowna last weekend.

The host Kelowna AquaJets swam to second-place overall, posting 14 club records and five aggregate winners at the third annual Long Course Invitational last weekend in Kelowna.

Robert Parlane is still getting up to speed on the world of Formula 1 racing.

Ruben Schneider drove in both runs as the Okanagan Merchants edged the Kelowna Centennials 2-1 and kept their unbeaten (6-0) streak alive in Kelowna Major Men's Fastball Association play on Thursday.

The first-place and favoured Okanagan Mission Huskies performed as expected on Thursday to win the Okanagan Valley senior 2A boys rugby champion-ship on home field.

Fifty-eight years later, the Allan Cup is back in Penticton.

Two wins in four games earned the Kelowna U-16 Heat a third-place finish at the Kelowna Spring Sizzle junior ladies fastball tournament on the weekend.