Local Sports

The St. Thomas More Knights completed a near-perfect Grade 8 girls' basketball season, capturing the school's first-ever B.C. high school championships.

The New Westminster atom A hockey team saved the best for last at the Tier 3 final four league playoff championship in West Vancouver last weekend.

Burnaby's Jeff Taylor will finish in Canadian college volleyball career with a silver medal.

The New Westminster Hyacks limped to 12th place following the B.C. high school AAA girls' basketball championships.

Helen Crofts became just the second-ever Simon Fraser University track athlete to be named a Sport B.C. university athlete of the year. Crofts was presented the award at the Sport B.C.

The New Westminster Hyacks were one of the victims of opening day blowouts at the 63rd B.C. high school AAA girls' basketball championships. The seventh-ranked Hyacks were upset by the Fraser Valley No.

The Royal City Westminster United under-14 gold soccer team avenged two earlier defeats to the North Van Fury, winning the Pioneer Cup final on penalty shootouts against the North Shore club.

The provincial age group championships were a medal playground for the Hyack Swim Club. The New Westminsterbased swim club took home 39 medals, including 13 gold and four provincial meet records at the AAA short course meet in Surrey last weekend.