Local Sports

The Northwest Giants had a chance to pad their stats following two big wins over the Fraser Valley Thunderbirds last weekend. The Giants, the only still unbeaten team in the B.C.

Alicia Bremer and Jemal Reta won their respective age groups at the B.C. cross-country championships in Abbotsford last week. Bremer took top spot in the nine-year-old girls' 1,500-metre run, finishing in a time of 7: 17.

Three local field hockey players will be joining the Canadian national men's field hockey team at the Champions Challenge in Argentina later this month.

Taylor Piller scored two goals and Christopher Hoe had four assists to lead the Simon Fraser University club hockey team to a 6-2 win over Trinity Western University last Saturday.

Simon Fraser University sunk host University of Victoria in the opening dual swim meet of the season. The Clan men won 11 of 15 events against the Vikings, while the SFU women's team nearly tripled UVic 329-112 last Saturday.

There is something about the moral from The Tortoise and the Hare fable that suits Megan Ellis.

The New Westminster Hyacks will do their playoff watching from the stands for just the second time in the high school football program's history.

The New Westminster junior varsity Hyacks are on the verge of doing something not even the senior team has done before - win a conference football title. That may become a reality for the younger Hyacks when they meet Mt.

Go-to guy: Royal City United's Daniel Johnson, in blue, was the leading scorer for the under-15 gold club at the Wesburn soccer tournament earlier this season.

New Westminster's Jon Cornish is just 49 yards shy of tying a long-standing All-Canadian pro football rushing mark. The St.