Local Sports

Burnaby Minor Baseball Association is thrilled to announce its return to the under-15 bantam AAA division for the 2013 season. Bantam AAA is the highest caliber of ball for this age group in B.C.

June: The New Westminster husband-and-wife team of Chad and Jennifer Oatway won the co-ed division for a second straight year at the Mind Over Mountain Adventure Race.

If Burnaby soccer star Christine Sinclair was not already Canada's most recognizable female athlete, she is now.

The Northwest Giants toasted the New Year with a second AAA midget boys' hockey title at the 35th annual Mac's Cup tournament in Calgary on New Year's Day.

May: Rick Pughe's Royal City Curling Club rink was named the master team of the year by Curl B.C. STM won the eight-team high school inviational golf tournament. Alan Tolusso posted the individual low gross score.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored early in the first period to lead the Canadian junior national hockey team to a 2-1 victory over the United States on Sunday.

Former St. Thomas More player of the year Jon Cornish became the Canadian all-time single-season rushing leader in the Canadian Football League in November.

The New Westminster Hyacks showed their stuff at the Bob Gair Classic boys' and girls' basketball tournaments.