Local Sports

Seven Douglas College alumni will be competing for a spot on Canada's Olympic wrestling team at team trials in Winnipeg on Dec. 16 and 17. Aso Palani and Frank Mensah will both be competing at 55 kilograms.

The junior varsity Knights took a huge weight off the collective shoulders of St. Thomas More Collegiate. The Knights used their speed and skill to upset the defending two-time provincial high school football champion Mt.

Burnaby Winter Club product Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is overachieving even for his standards.

St. Thomas More's humbling 54-7 loss to Mt. Douglas in the semifinal of the provincial varsity football championship has a positive side to it. "For our boys, it's a wakeup call," said STM junior varsity head coach Dave Ruzycki.

Burnaby district football players ran away with a number of the top awards at the Subway Bowl awards banquet last Saturday. Notre Dame regional school's Michael Herdman was named the B.C. secondary schools' AAA defensive MVP.

Hyack Swim Club's Sherry Liu had a couple of strong showings at the Canada Cup swim championships in Etobicoke, Ont. last weekend. Liu placed eighth in the women's 800-metre freestyle A final, clocking a time of 9: 03.06 in the elite field.

Gabriel Ho-Garcia scored his firstever international goal for Canada's national men's field hockey team last month.

Burnaby's Briannah Tsang earned two medals at the Top Gym competition in Charleroi, Belgium Nov. 27. Tsang won a gold medal in her specialty, the vault, with a double-twisting Yurchenko and a Yurchenko one-and-a-half.