Local Sports

Burnaby Figure Skating Club wants to get a head start on Skate Canada's new athlete development initiative.

The Sapperton Rovers sold their stock in the Vancouver Metro Soccer League, bringing the number of teams now operating on the other side of the Port Mann bridge to four.

If ever there was a dream team in the Royal City, this has to be it.

Canada's men's goalball team was eliminated from further play by the reigning champions from China at the Paralympic Games on Monday.

If Canada earns a berth at the 2013 junior World Cup, a significant number of the current Canadian national team will be aged up and too old to participate.

The New Westminster Hyacks found a cure for cross-border shopping. The New Westminster high school varsity football team were spanked in its season opener 50-16 by the Blaine Borderites at Blaine High School on Friday.

Orange crush: The Royal City Hyacks atom orange team, in orange, defeated the Burnaby Lions 19-0 at Mercer Stadium on Sunday.

First of the season: Royal City United, in blue, took on Wesburn United in an under-15 gold youth soccer match at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex-West on Saturday.

B.C. won the Alumni Cup Canada's under-16 national field lacrosse title for a second consecutive year.

Simon Fraser University sent Pacific University a message in its varsity football season opener. The Clan opened the 2012 season with a rollicking 51-14 victory over the NCAA Division III school in Forest Grove, Oregon on Aug. 30.