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Coquitlam BMXer Tory Nyhaug is accustomed to launching his bike off berms and bumps at courses around the world. But the latest launch of the two-time Olympian and gold medalist at the Pan American Games is a little different.

Losing Sunday’s Fraser Valley championship game to Holy Cross, 83-63, may not have been the springboard to the BC High School AAAA basketball provincials the Terry Fox Ravens wanted, but their coach says it hasn’t bounced the team from its goal.

There's been no hibernating this winter for these bears.

Another athlete from the Tri-Cities will have to make room in her suitcase for a medal from the Canada Winter Games in Red Deer, Alb.

Matthew Hewa Baddege has become used to being the big man on campus. Soon he’ll have to get used to being just another man on campus.

Anmore’s Michelle Reaume has completed 23 Ironman races. She’s played premier soccer, run ultramarathons and she finished in the top 10 at the New York City gran fondo — the first long-distance cycling race she entered.

Next stop, Prince George. The Coquitlam Express clinched third place in the BC Hockey League’s Mainland division with a 7-0 victory over the Surrey Eagles Friday at the South Surrey Arena.

The flight of the Terry Fox Ravens to the senior boys AAAA basketball provincial championships continues Sunday when they’ll face Surrey’s Holy Cross Crusaders in the final of the Fraser Valley championship.

The Simon Fraser University Clan women’s basketball team heads into its final four Great Northwest Athletic Conference regular season games riding the momentum of four straight wins.

The Vernon Vipers scored twice in the first period and again in the second period to roll to a 4-1 win over the Coquitlam Express in their BC Hockey League game, Wednesday in Vernon.