Local Sports

Dusan Mitrovic and Niklas Papakyriakopoulos, both of New Westminster, were welcomed into the Whitecaps fold Monday with the announcement of the Whitecaps FC new residency program players list.

The Royal City youth soccer club NW Barcelona advanced to the semifinals in the u-15 girls' Coastal A cup. Barca downed Vancouver 3-0 at Queen's Park East on Sunday. Tia Lore scored all three goals for New Westminster.

New Westminster's Kyle Turris picked up his second assist of the NHL playoffs in the Ottawa Senators' 3-2 win that tied the best-of-seven series with the New York Rangers at one game apiece on Saturday.

The Lower Mainland under-19 team put on a late surge at the Canadian ringette championships in Burnaby.

While New Brunswick was making history as the first under-16 Maritime winner at the Canadian ringette championships, hometown Lower Mainland stopped a sweep of sorts with a win of its own.

Winners: Local Special Olympians gathered at Lucky Strike Lanes in New Westminster for the provincial 10-pin qualifying tournament on Sunday.

The Royal City youth soccer club made it to the semifinals of both the Coastal A and B Cup playdowns. NW Barcelona advanced to the semifinals in the u-15 girls' Coastal A cup. Barca downed Vancouver 3-0 at Queen's Park East on Sunday.

The Lower Mainland Thunder made it look so easy. But getting to the final of the Canadian ringette championships, let alone winning it, was anything but simple for the expansion National Ringette League club.

Burnaby is still alive in five Coastal A Cup playdowns.

The 13th edition of the Danone Nations Cup will begin in Burnaby with a B.C. provincial camp this Sunday. Soccer players 10 to 12 years old are invited to try out at a youth camp to be held at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex-West.