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A young Coquitlam soccer player is living his sports dream. Emiliano Brienza is in soccer-mad Brazil, where he’s playing for Canada’s U17 national team at the FIFA U17 World Cup.

Even with a ticket to the nationals confirmed, the Douglas College Royals weren’t about to settle for second class passage.

Coquitlam’s Matteo Polisi scored his eighth goal of the year but it wasn’t enough to spare his SFU Clan men’s soccer team just its third loss of its Great Northwest Athletic Conference season.

Greg Lapointe scored a pair of goals and Steve Bellini scored a goal and added two assists to lead the Coquitlam Express to a 5-1 win over the Victoria Grizzlies, Tuesday in Victoria.

The Tri-Cities’ two high school senior football teams won’t have much more than civic pride on the line when they play their annual crosstown rivalry game Friday, 7 p.m., at Coquitlam’s Percy Perry Stadium.

The Coquitlam Express head to Vancouver Island for two games this week, still perfect at home. The BC Hockey League team won its eighth game at the Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex in as many starts Sunday, 3-1, over the Langley Rivermen.

Halloween is still a few days away, but in West Vancouver on the weekend more than 1,000 screaming fans witnessed an entire field hockey team come back from the dead.

Coquitlam’s Kiara Buono scored her second goal of the season, but it wasn’t enough to lift her SFU Clan women’s soccer team to victory over Western Washington University, Saturday in Bellingham, Wash.

The Coquitlam Express scored four times in the first period and rolled to a 6-1 victory over the visiting Powll River Kings, Sunday at the Poirier Sports and Leisure Complex.

Coquitlam’s Matteo Polisi scored the only goal to give his Simon Fraser University Clan men’s soccer team a 1-0 win over Northwest Nazarene University, in their Great Northwest Athletic Conference match, Thursday in Nampa, Idaho.