Local Sports

Their shooting reflected a team that hadn’t played a game in nearly three weeks. At the same time, the coach felt for the first contest of 2018, they were a little slow.

The Royal City and Kamloops curling clubs’ Team Brown put in a good run before collecting bronze at the B.C. Scotties women’s curling championship in Victoria last week.

A new year offers new opportunities. For Burnaby's Sara Tamura, it also offers new experiences.

It was a hoped for final, complete with happy ending. The New Westminster Royals capped their own Herb House Memorial Midget Hockey tournament with a 2-1 win over the Port Coquitlam Pirates in the final.

New Westminster's middle distance champion stacked up medals and personal bests in a breakthrough track season:

... top New Westminster's 2017 Year in Sports

Recharged, rested and ready for the second half, the New Westminster Hyacks senior boys basketball team had a couple of weeks to savour a strong start. Now, the work gets real.

Eliciting some subterfuge, New Westminster senior girls basketball coach Doug Woodward is weighing the benefits of laying low. Unranked, the Hyacks are not listed among the favourites to make next March’s B.C. AAA championships in Langley.

Growing up, New Westminster’s Rory McDade got to know Queen’s Park Arena like his own playpen. Summertime, he logged a lot of lacrosse hours bouncing the ball down the wooden floor.

All the spots are now spoken for. The Royal City Curling Club’s Team Bowles punched its ticket to the 2018 Boston Pizza B.C. Junior Curling championships, thanks to a strong showing at the final playdowns held in Gibsons two weeks ago.