Local Sports

Queen's Park Arena will be the venue for the B.C. Intermediate provincial lacrosse championships this weekend. New Westminster must be considered the favourite in the A division, having won the regular season convincingly with a 21-3-0 record.

Last season, Xenia Dumont wasn't really sure if she was good enough to play for Team B.C.'s bantam girls' lacrosse team. Fast forward one year and the 14-year-old St.

Team B.C. was edged 4-3 by Ontario in the gold-medal final of the Canadian bantam girls' national lacrosse championships at Queen's Park Arena Thursday.

Ontario stole the gold medal from Team B.C. in the final of the midget girls' Canadian lacrosse championships at Queen's Park Arena Thursday. B.C.

The New Westminster Salmonbellies took a two-game lead in its best-of-five junior A lacrosse semifinal series. The Salmonbellies scored two goals in each of the three B.C.

It was hardly the time or place for the New Westminster Salmonbellies' second straight loss.

Parity in the Western Lacrosse Association is going to put a big damper on at least three senior A clubs this year. With the final week of the regular season soon to unfold, the possible final scenarios for all seven teams are too many to mention.

Former Douglas College collegiate champions Melody Liang and Stephanie Ko won their opening round match over Christina Aicardi and Claudia Rivero of Peru 16-21, 23-21, 21-16 at the Yonex Canada Open badminton championships in Richmond on July 20.

St. Thomas More Collegiate students Jalen Jana and Shane Noel shared a gold medal with the Coquitlam Falcons at the Canadian national flag football championships in Halifax. The B.C.