New Westminster track and field athletes led the medal parade for Zone 4 at the B.C. Summer Games in Surrey.
Raquel Tjernagel won both the girls' 200-and 300-metre sprints, while also earning a second-place medal with the Fraser River Delta zone 4x400m relay team.
Nina Schultz was a four-medal-winning athlete from the Royal City. Schultz won silver medals in the girls' triple jump and 80m hurdles.
Schultz also earned a bronze medal in the 300m hurdles and in the zone girls' 4x100m relay.
Carly Harder earned a gold medal in equestrian, winning the Division D girls/boys vaulting canter.
The Zone 4 boys' soccer team, including New Westminster's Dusan Mitrovic and Nikolas Papakyriakopoulos, also came away with a gold medal.
New West lacrosse players earned bronze medals in both box and field games at the Games.
Matthew Buchanan, Nolan Duncan, Enzo Gentile, Max Gerhardt, goalie Nikolas Lund-Murray, Dalton Lupul, Nathan Macedo, Kalan Mackay, Laiton Manuel, Dylan Sharpe, Iain Varley, Ryan Wilkinson and Blake Duncan made up a significant majority of the Zone 4 field lacrosse team that won the team bronze following a 6-3 win over VancouverSquamish.
The New West-dominated team just missed out on a berth in the final, losing 8-7 in overtime to eventual gold medallist Fraser Valley in the semifinal.
Connor Frost scored the game-winning goal for the Fraser Valley on his good friend Lund-Murray in OT.
The two 15-year-old boys were teammates on a B.C. Mainland team that placed third overall at an All-Canada recruitment tournament in Oshawa, Ont. earlier this month.
In the indoor box lacrosse consolation final, Brent Dhandwar, Sean Fitzsimmons, Preston Lupul, Tommy Robertson, Connor Robinson and Mitchell Stokes also placed third at the Games.
The Fraser River Delta zone team won a total of 11 gold medals to finish fourth overall in aggregate medal standings.
Vancouver IslandCentral Coast topped the Games' medal board with 38 gold and 101 total medals.
Fraser Valley was runner-up with 94 medals.
