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The start of a new rugby season brings hope and wet weather. The United Rugby Club's women's first game of the season was blessed with both rain and a win. They knocked off the Scirbes 29-5 on Saturday, getting a big performance from Taylor Einhorn.

It may not be the international game that soccer is, but lacrosse has most of the corners of the globe covered, at least going by the competition at the world indoor lacrosse championships, which begin Thursday at the Langley Events Centre.

The rain couldn't keep the fans away, and it couldn't slow the New Westminster Hyacks down at Friday's annual Homecoming Night at Mercer Stadium. The 3-A high school football team got a well-rounded performance from its running backs to blank G.W.

The Douglas College Royals got the result they wanted on the second day of the start of a new PacWest men’s soccer season.

Defence delivered the gold to Team B.C.’s female midget box lacrosse team last month in Coquitlam. As hosts of the national championships, B.C.

The lessons learned in preseason can be put in the bank for when the real games get played. New Westminster Hyacks coach Farhan Lalji hopes to see some of those hard knocks pay dividends sooner than later. New West launched the 2019 B.C.

Their connections cross from Burnaby to New Westminster, and their playing career saw them work together for just a few months, but John Wilson and Paul Dal Monte will be entering the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame on the same ticket.

Sit a few minutes and listen to Payton Myers and Greyson Planisic talk, and you can tell they have their own vernacular. It’s an easy-going jostle that comes with being best pals.

Hitting new heights is just part of the routine for Shasta Trampoline’s Samantha Smith. The New West physiotherapist was at the top of her game earlier this month, capturing the gold medal at the Pan Am Games in Peru.

Being cool, calm and commanding are three ways to describe New Westminster’s Darsh Grewall. Those traits have done him well in his work in stripes.