The kids are all right. The golf kids, that is. The next generation of golfers on the Island had an impressive week this week, especially Callum Davison of Duncan.
The 12-year-old Davison captured the sa国际传媒 bantam boys title on Tuesday at the Merritt Golf and Country club. Davison shot rounds of 68 and 71 to win by two strokes over Jake Lane of Fort St. John, Raymond Li of Vancouver and Mill Bay's Tristan Mandur. Mandur had rounds of 73 and 68. Victoria's Keaton Gudz and Ethan Ko also cracked the top 10. Gudz fired two rounds of 72 to finish in seventh place, while Ko finished in 10th place thanks to rounds of 77 and 76.
Davison's final round included making eight straight pars and having just one bogey.
"I was a little nervous to start the round so I wanted to just play safe," Davison said in a statement. "It feels good to win."
On the girls' side, three Island players made the top 10. Abigail Rigsby of Courtney finished in sixth place thanks to rounds of 76, while Shirin Anjarwalla of Nanaimo was eighth (79 and 74) and Lexi Kondrak of Victoria 10th (83 and 80).
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The University of sa国际传媒Okanagan has won the Conor Morgan sweepstakes.
Morgan will play CIS basketball for the Kelowna school this season after starring for the Mount Douglas Rams in his senior year last season. The sixfoot-eight Morgan is also a member of sa国际传媒's national junior team.
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Thanks to an injury to fellow London Olympian Max Plaxton, Geoff Kabush will carry Island hopes at the Mountain Bike World Championships which start Saturday in Austria.
Kabush, who had sa国际传媒's best result- eighth - in men's mountain bike in London, is part of a four-man Canadian elite cross-country team in Austria.
Olympian Catharine Pendrel of Kamloops leads the Canadian elite crosscountry women into the championships.
In the downhill event, Remi Gauvin of Nanoose Bay will compete for sa国际传媒 in the elite division, while Duncan's Marc Wallace will compete in the junior downhill event.
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Jennifer Park of Nanaimo donned the Maple Leaf at the recent Pan American Bowling Confederation Championships and helped sa国际传媒 finish in fifth place.
Park finished 27th in the overall standings in the event, which was played in Henderson, Nevada, just outside Las Vegas.
The U.S. won the overall gold medal, followed by Mexico and Colombia.
