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'Bellies score five unanswered goals in third period to upset B.C. champions

The Burnaby Mountain Mantas swim club placed fifth at the B.C. Summer Swimming championships.

Expect the defending B.C. major midget champion Northwest Giants to be smaller and quicker this season. This year's Giants will be led by Burnaby defenceman Domenic Masellis and forwards Colton Kerfoot and Quinn Thompson.

Krista Woodward of New Westminster threw the javelin nearly 59 metres in her qualifying flight at the world track and field championships in Moscow last Friday. Woodward's throw of 58.

New Westminster's Kevin Crowley was named the Major League Lacrosse offensive player of the year.

The New Westminster Salmonbellies are headed back to a Minto Cup final for the first time since 1994.

New Westminster lacrosse was front and centre as the Western Lacrosse Association announced its first wave of award winners.

First-year junior Nathan Stewart scored five goals, including a first-period hat trick, to lead the New Westminster Salmonbellies to a 16-9 victory over the Rocky Mountain champion Okotoks Raiders on Day 3 of the Minto Cup championships at Queen's Pa

It was a difficult Minto Cup for the 2013 Okotoks Raiders.