Local Sports

The Burnaby Winter Club added a provincial championship to an already record-setting AAA peewee season season.

The Burnaby Winter Club won't get a chance at a Western Canadian bantam AAA three-peat. The Pacific Coast bantam A1 runner-up was nipped in the B.C.

The Burnaby Karate Academy won seven gold medals at the recent national championships held in Toronto on March 15 to 17.

Burnaby Winter Club may be the first A2 team to win a B.C. Tier 2 provincial hockey banner.

The New Westminster C1 Royals emerged as the winners of the annual Al Hughes peewee hockey tournament that finished last Tuesday evening. The five-day, eight-team tournament was played at Queen's and Moody Park arenas.

There was nothing sweet about Simon Fraser University's finish in the final 16 at the NCAA Division II national women's basketball championships.

Ten-year-old Kyra Tamagi led the Hyack Swim Club to a strong showing at the Lower Mainland regional championships. Tamagi won three gold, including the 50metre butterfly and 50and 100m freestyle, while also picking up four other medals.

A lack of sponsorship is behind a move to shift the international women's hockey festival from Burnaby to Calgary.

Chelsea Nerpio won a gold medal in the national women's open for the Shasta Trampoline Club at the B.C. championships in Kamloops. Nerpio also earned a silver medal in the senior women's double-mini trampoline.