Local Sports

8Star Motorsports will have a new, but familiar driver in the Grand-Am paddock when when Burnaby's Michael Valiante gets behind the wheel of its Corvette Daytona Prototype for the Diamond Cellar Classic at Mid-Ohio on June 14-15.

Grade 12 senior Alan Tolusso is this year's winner of the B.C. high school AA golf championships. The St.

New Westminster Royals to Hyack major final

New Westminster was outquicked by the Victoria Shamrocks in its Western Lacrosse Association home opener on May 24. The senior A Salmonbellies held the lead for a brief 27 seconds before falling to .

Mihailo Stefanovic is on his way to the World youth track and field championships. The New West Spartans athlete broke the B.C. provincial record for youth in the 110-metre hurdles with a new time of 14.

Ben Blais of New Westminster was a double medallist at the Canadian trampoline championships in Ottawa last week. The Shasta Trampoline Club tumbler finished runner-up in the junior men's trampoline with a total score of 142.025.

Zion Corales Nelson has been lighting it up down south. The Grade 9 St. Thomas More student recently won the women's 400 metres against NCAA athletes in a time of 55.7 at the recent University of Oregon Twilight meet.

Beginning this fall, bodychecking will not be part of the game for peewee aged hockey players in Canada. Hockey Canada wrapped up its 94th annual two-day general meeting in Charlottetown, P.E.I. on Saturday with a modification to playing rule 6.

Mihailo Stefanovic is on the way to the World youth track and field championships. The New West Spartans athlete broke the B.C. provincial record for youth in the 110-metre hurdles with a new time of 14.

Simon Fraser University middle distance runner Helen Crofts was named the West region female track athlete of the year by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.