Cornwall’s Jakob Loucks has made a good first impression with his new football team.

Loucks, the former star quarterback with the Mount Allison Mounties in New Brunswick, is now guiding the Okanagan Sun in the B.C. Football Conference, and the team is off to a 1-0 start.

The Sun on Sunday was dominant on the road, routing the Kamloops Broncos 56-6.

Loucks threw for one touchdown in the game, and he ran in another one, in a contest that was a 38-0 blowout before halftime.

Loucks was good on eight of 13 pass attempts, for 127 yards.

The Sun, which doesn’t play its first home game in Kelowna until Sept. 8, is back on the road next Saturday, travelling to Westhills Stadium in Victoria to take on the Westshore Rebels.

Loucks two years ago at Mount Allison won the U SPORTS top rookie award in Canadian university football, leading the Mounties into the Atlantic league’s title game against St. Francis Xavier.

The former student at St. Joseph’s Secondary School played lots of high school football in Buffalo, N.Y., at Canisius High School, winning one state title.

After two years at Mount Allison, Loucks left the university, looking to change his educational direction, and the 20-year-old was eventually invited last spring to visit Kelowna and see what the B.C. Football Conference had to offer.

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Ingleside’s Kristy Pidgeon and the defending national champion Clarkson Golden Knights women’s NCAA Division I hockey team will be heading west to start their 2018-19 season.

The Golden Knights start the campaign in late September (28, 29) with a pair of games at Bemidji State in Minnesota.

The first two home games are Oct. 5-6, at Cheel Arena in Potsdam, with the Robert Morris Colonials from the Pittsburgh area supplying the opposition.

Pidgeon, a freshman in 2017-18, in 40 games had six goals and three assists for nine points.

The Golden Knights last March at Ridder Arena in Minneapolis defeated ECAC rival Colgate 2-1 in overtime for their second straight Frozen Four championship, and third in the last five years.

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On the men’s side at Clarkson, the Golden Knights open the year at home at Cheel Arena with an exhibition game against the University of Guelph, on Oct. 6.

The season begins four days later, with the first of two contests on the road at University Park in Pennsylvania, against the Penn State Nittany Lions.

The Golden Knights were 23-11-6 overall in 2017-18, and the roster included two former Cornwall captains. Marly Quince in 36 games collected five goals and six assists for 11 points.

Freshman Grant Cooper had a serious injury limit his season to 11 games, and he had a total of three points.

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Williamstown’s Ross Craig and the Colgate Raiders men’s hockey team will also open their year with a home exhibition game against the Gryphons, on Oct. 7.

The season begins Oct. 12 at Class of 1965 Arena in Hamilton, N.Y., with the first of two games against New Hampshire.

Craig returned to the lineup from concussion symptoms late in the 2017-18 campaign and the blueliner collected a pair of assists in six contests.