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The New Westminster Hyacks didn't start the B.C. senior girls AAA basketball championships exactly how they wanted. But after Day 2, they have their winning mojo back.

For the third time in the past five years, the Royal City Westminster United boys team are rightful possessors of the Pioneer Cup.

The New Westminster wrestling team didn`t require a huge bus when it hit the B.C. High School championships last week. But it sure packed the trunk when it came to the return trip home. Led by medalists Connor Pattison, T.J.

Unearthing the history and stories behind a minor soccer club celebrating its 50th anniversary, involves dogged sleuthing through dusty archives and patient spooling through microfiche.

Good to go -- the New Westminster Hyacks senior girls basketball team achieved their main goal at last week’s Lower Mainlands en route to finishing second.

The New Westminster Hyacks didn’t leave anything in the tank in a season-ending 105-99 loss to Eric Hamber last Friday in the Quad-A Lower Mainland senior boys championships.

On the strength of a six-point game, New West’s Josh Byrne was named Hofstra University’s men’s lacrosse GoHofstra.com student-athlete of the week.

The Royal City Youth Soccer Club (RCYSC) celebrate its 50th anniversary on March 5, and it seeks memories and memorabilia of the past from current and former members.

New players and returning players showed that growing together over a long season can have its crowning moment.

The Burnaby-New West under-14 ringette team trounced Surrey-White Rock 6-1 in a provincial qualifying game last week at Burnaby Lake.