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A game-ending, three-run fifth inning by Caribbean champ Curacao spelt the end for the Little League World Series dreams of the Hastings All-Stars.

Fast track: Raquel Tjernagel, No. 29 seen here at the B.C. high school championships, won two national silver medals in under-16 girls' races at the Canadian Legion youth track and field nationals in Charlottetown, P.E.I last weekend.

Kimberley Newell of Burnaby showed she is Team Canada's goalie of the future following two wins in a three-game under-18 women's hockey series against the United States.

I can't just not try, says The Record athlete of the year

This is the Langley Thunder's year, said New Westminster's Brett Mydske.

The B.C. Seniors Games kicks off on Wednesday in Burnaby and parts of New Westminster. The Royal City Curling Club is the venue for ice curling, which will run for the life of the Games from Tuesday, Aug. 21 through to Saturday.

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. this weekend. Tjernagel won her first of two silver medals for Team B.C.

The Coquitlam Adanacs came away with four players named to the Western Lacrosse Association allstar teams, including three first-team picks.

Kimberley Newell of Burnaby posted a pair of wins to earn a place on Canada's under-18 national women's hockey team following a selection camp in Calgary. Newell, who played goal for the Kootenay Ice of the B.C.

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