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There’s one last obstacle facing the New Westminster junior A Salmonbellies in their pursuit of a Minto Cup berth. But it’s a doozy. The junior ’Bellies launch the B.C.

If there was a premonition of how the season would end, the New Westminster bantam A2 Salmonbellies may have seen it two months ago at home.

Team B.C. has one goal in mind – gold. The girls midget program is looking to keep the good times going and repeat as Canadian national box lacrosse champions in the tournament that kicks off next week in Halifax.

For a brief moment, New West’s Grace Fetherstonhaugh found herself crossing paths with U.S. President Donald Trump. Stuck in the Helsinki airport while the U.S.

Consider the first challenge done. Now, the New Westminster junior A Salmonbellies are ready for the showdown.

Logan Schuss jumped to the front of the Western Lacrosse Association’s scoring race with back-to-back nine point efforts, as New West racked up a couple of big wins the past week.

Ryan Goudron, Jackson Schiebler and Katelyn Stewart-Barnett got their summer vacations off to a great start, stacking up three gold medal finishes each at the Trevor Craven Memorial Track and Field meet this past week in Burnaby.

Looking to recreate some of that midseason momentum they previously enjoyed, the New Westminster junior A Salmonbellies launch the B.C. Junior A Lacrosse League playoffs on Friday with no one looking down the road.

Repeating as champion was sweet. It’s just hard to top the first time, though.

It would have been hard to design a better finish. Whether in her career as a sustainable building advisor in Vancouver or a road-racing cyclist with Rally Cycling, Coquitlam’s Sara Bergen is all about the finish.