Local Sports

Crazy 8s: A Burnaby 2 field hockey player, in black, pokes a ball away from a Vancouver Red Hawks attacker at the provincial 8-a-side festival held at the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex-West last weekend.

Getting on the wrong side of the officials cost the New Westminster Salmonbellies dearly in Western Lacrosse Association action this weekend.

Simon Fraser University track athlete Helen Crofts has been named the Great Northwest Athletic Conference's female co-athlete of the year along with Seattle Pacific hepthalon athlete Ali Worthen.

There was a mistake in the date of a New Westminster Salmonbellies junior A lacrosse game printed in Wednesday's June 12 Record. The junior A 'Bellies will play the Langley Thunder on Thursday at the Langley Events Centre on Thursday, June 13.

New Westminster moved to a record of 8-4 with an easy win in Nanaimo on Saturday. The junior A Salmonbellies got big games from Anthony Malcom, Josh Byrne and Quinn Smith to leave the Timbermen behind following an 11-7 victory at Frank Crane Arena.

Bellie ball: New Westminster's Andrew Matz, right, works for a ball against the North Shore in an intermediate novice matchup at the John Witt Bellie Bowl lacrosse tournament at Moody Park Arena last Saturday.

The Burnaby Winter Club hired Aaron Wilber as head coach of the new Hockey Academy prep team for 2013. Wilber joins Leland Mack at the academy, who was earlier named as the head coach of the elite 15s division.

Kimberly Newell of Burnaby is the youngest player invited to the under22 national women's hockey program goaltending camp in Calgary this weekend.

New Westminster Hyacks all-star Jordan Chin was part of the Coquitlam Tiger Cats flag football team that won the under-19 provincial championship title at Hugh Boyd Park in Richmond last Sunday.