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A perfect 3-0 run gave the New Westminster Hyacks a good bounce heading into the Christmas break. The senior girls basketball team finished atop the Bob Gair Classic tournament, framing the week with a 67-42 victory over Elgin Park.

The final score read 13-12 for Calgary, but the Vancouver Stealth couldn’t be overly disappointed with the result Sunday in their last exhibition test prior to the start of the National Lacrosse League 2016 season.

At the elite Richmond Fast Swim last week, the Hyack Swim Club emerged with the most medals. Taking 62 podium spots – one more than the host Rapids – the New Westminster-based swim club put on a display that saw three swimmers take the No.

New West Secondary’s junior girls basketball team will be scoping out the competition this week at the Bob Gair Classic.

Two more Royal City curling teams have secured berths at the B.C. men’s curling championships.

Burnaby-New Westminster’s u12 ringette team proved they belong in the top tier of their division on Saturday after beating PoCo Ridge Meadows 11-3 on home ice.

In his own, ‘Gosh, me?’ kind of way, Quinn Stanhope is pumped for the final months of high school. The New Westminster Secondary student sits uneasy fielding questions on his lacrosse exploits, but there’s no denying the facts.

It was a game of lines, and the steadiest line prevailed. The New Westminster Hyacks overwhelmed the Mount Douglas Rams 48-29 in Saturday’s B.C. Subway Bowl Junior AAA Football final at B.C. Place to capture the program’s first-ever gridiron title.

Double medals were in the cards for members of the Shasta Trampoline Club. Kyle Carragher and Tamara O’Brien, representing Canada at the World championships in Denmark two weeks ago, returned home with silver and gold.