Local Sports

Take that, Timbermen. After the Coquitlam Adanacs lost two straight games for the first time in six years last weekend to the Nanaimo Timbermen, they weren’t about to allow their uncharacteristic skid extend to three.

The Port Coquitlam Sports Alliance recently honoured some of the city’s best and brightest athletes, coaches and builders as part of its ceremony to induct new members to its hall of fame.

Rock climbers of every ilk ‘crimped,’ ‘lay-backed’ and ‘dynoed’ through 12 hours of competition Saturday, June 1, in an event that brought out both first-timers and the hardcore.

A beloved builder of lacrosse in Coquitlam who passed away in April, 2018, will be honoured by one of the teams he helped construct. The Coquitlam Jr.

Riverside secondary’s Jarrett Chong threw his javelin almost eight metres further than last year to win his second consecutive BC High School championship in the event. Chong’s throw of 63.

The Coquitlam Jr. Adanacs lost two games all last season. On the team’s weekend in Nanaimo, they matched that total in less than 24 hours.

The Centennial Centaurs senior girls soccer team turned a life lesson from the classroom into their second consecutive AAA provincial championship. Centennial beat the Fleetwood Park Dragons 2-1 in overtime Friday at the Cloverdale Athletic Park.

Port Coquitlam’s Brandon Lisowsky is replacing the horizon of the Golden Ears Mountains with a vista of wheat fields as far as he can see.

In rugby, it can be hard to tell the players without a program. Usually because there isn’t a program, let alone numbers or names on jerseys. And they’re often swapped when a player has to leave the match because of injury.

A pair of losses to start their Western Lacrosse Association season hasn’t got the coach of the Coquitlam Adanacs, Bob Bell, down. But it has got him determined to get his young team working harder to get on the same page.