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A lot of positives emerged from the New Westminster senior girls basketball team’s journey at the Centennial Top-10 tournament last week.

New Year’s resolutions don’t necessarily have to be new. The Douglas College Royals began 2016 right where they left the old calendar off, on a winning note, with a pair of PacWest women’s basketball road wins.

It’s a long way from the Lower Mainland to South Muskoka. For Burnaby’s Garrett Wills and New Westminster’s Ermi Mulatu, it’s just where hockey takes you.

Scoring points has not been an issue for the New Westminster senior girls Hyacks this season – except for Saturday.

Limiting the opposition to just four goals over the final three games, the New Westminster C1 Royals returned from the Coquitlam Big Chill Bantam hockey tournament with a taste for gold.

The score said it all. The Royal City Curling Club’s Sarah Daniels rink is the 2016 Tim Hortons B.C. Junior Women’s curling champion, after toppling last year’s champs in an 11-3 win in Kamloops.

The New Westminster C1 Royals got an opportunity to avenge their lone loss of the tournament in the gold medal game of the Herb House Midget Tournament last week.

Along with death and taxes, one firm constant we've come to rely on is how rivalries and suspicion kept trade talks in the Western Lacrosse League to a low murmur.

New Westminster minor hockey was a big part of Aaron Loughhead’s life, but it also benefited from his involvement.

In 2015 there were many great stories and accomplishments in Burnaby sports, so to pick a top-four list was exceedingly tough. Try we did, acknowledging a handful of amazing athletes.