Sports

After the final buzzer sounded at the Envision Athletic Centre on Saturday evening, University of the Fraser Valley guard Joel Friesen aptly summed up his team’s weekend by booting a chair in frustration. Indeed, gut-wrenching losses were the theme for the Cascade hoopsters – the UFV men’s and women’s squads were each dealt a pair of demoralizing defeats by the visiting Regina Cougars.

There is a time in the life of junior curlers when they have dominated their peers, but they’re not experienced enough to challenge the adult competitive teams.

Ales Kotalik, a talented-but-underachieving scorer with a $3-million-per-year contract, has been assigned to the Abbotsford Heat.

It's shaping up to be a huge sports week at the University of the Fraser Valley.