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The team from B.C.'s Hub City gave the front-running New Westminster Salmonbellies the snub. And one small setback has put the Western Lacrosse Association club in a tighter fight for top spot. New West enters tonight's contest (Thursday, 7:30 p.m.

There’s no place like home. New Westminster’s Lilly Ujfalusi is enjoying the fringe benefits of competitive cycling – which includes travelling, meeting new people and racing the best competitors in the youth women’s circuit.

Maggie Coles-Lyster will wheel into the B.C. Superweek cycling series next week as a wily veteran.

The wheeling and dealing is done – now it’s up to the players. The New Westminster Salmonbellies enter the final weekend of the B.C. Junior A Lacrosse League season with an outside chance at first place.

The moustache may pop to mind, but when lacrosse people talk about Dave Durante they speak about intensity and his desire to win. Durante didn’t like to lose.

Shasta Trampoline Club’s Declan McLean joined forces with Nova Scotia’s Kai Dwyer to catapult to a bronze medal at last week’s 2018 Trampoline Gymnastics Junior Pan American championships in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

With less than two weeks left in the regular schedule, the standings for the top-four finishers in the B.C.Junior A Lacrosse League remains a work in progress.

For just the second time this season, the New Westminster Salmonbellies took it on the chin. In a tight contest at the Langley Events Centre on Wednesday, the host Thunder used a late offensive foray to topple the first-place 'Bellies 9-7.

One more time. New Westminster-born Mike Mason is taking it one meet at a time, one high jump at a time – and admits the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics is his main motivation.

For their first foray on the international stage in red and white, the Royal City Track and Field Club’s Jarrett Chong and Jenevieve Patry- Smith will soak up some sun as members of a 42-athlete Canadian team in Jamaica.