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It's not just 400 metres of prime time for New Westminster's Dustin Walsh next week at the Paralympic Games in London. This time, it's 500 - as in the 400m and the 4x100m relay - as the veteran competitor adds another event to his portfolio.

Two St. Thomas More Collegiate students battled it out in the final of the 58th Pacific Northwest junior boys' amateur golf championships earlier this month.

Steelers' hockey: The Grandview Steelers finished up their main camp at the Burnby Winter Club with a lively inter-squad game. The junior B hockey club plays its first exhibition game versus the Ridge Meadows Flames at Planet Ice tonight.

Simon Fraser University's Kay Sze is eager to make her point. And not just with the tip of her sword, either.

The Premier Baseball League Vancouver Cannons midget baseball team will open its fall school on Tuesday, Aug. 28.

Katrina Heinonen was the toast of the B.C. Summer Swimming Association provincial championships in Nanaimo. The Division 6 Burnaby Barracudas swimmer won four individual medals and set three provincial pool records at the Nanaimo Aquatic Centre Aug.

Raquel Tjernagel of New Westminster brought home two track medals from the 2012 Canadian Youth Legion track and field championships in Charlottetown, P.E.I. last weekend. Tjernagel won her first of two silver medals for Team B.C.

The Burnaby Barracudas medalled in all four age groups, including a pair of gold medals, at the B.C. summer swimming water polo provincials in Nanaimo last week.

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