Local Sports

An injury cost Port Coquitlam’s Amanda Matsui the last seven games of the University of the Fraser Valley Cascades women’s volleyball team’s season. But it hasn’t cost her a spot on the PACWEST all-star team for the second straight season.

The Canada Winter Games are coming up bronze for Coquitlam biathlete Andrei Secu. The 19-year-old skier and shooter who was born in Romania, won his third bronze medal of the competition in Red Deer, AB., on Wednesday as part of the men's 3 X 7.

Chris Glenn, who rode the waves in a tub for four decades, dies of prostate cancer

Devin McCrae, of Heritage Woods secondary school, won the gold medal in the male 66 kg weight class at the B.C. Secondary Schools Wrestling Association provincial championships that wrapped up Tuesday at the Langley Events Centre.

The Riverside Rapids went into the Fraser Valley AAA senior girls basketball championship tourney seeded third, and that’s just where they finished.

The Terry Fox Ravens will play the Walnut Grove Gators tonight, 8:15 p.m., at Terry Fox secondary, with a spot in the championship round of the Fraser Valley AAAA senior boys basketball tournament at stake.

Al Ores helped build the sport of car racing in British Columbia. So much so, his efforts are being honoured by the Burnaby Sports Hall of Fame when he’s inducted as a builder on Feb. 28.

The Coquitlam Express carried a 3-0 lead into the third period then scored a goal into the empty net to seal a 4-1 victory over the Cowichan Valley Capitals Sunday at the Island Savings Centre in Duncan.

Chase Danol scored on a one-time 1:33 into overtime to give the Coquitlam Express a 6-5 win over the Powell River Kings Saturday in Powell River. The victory snaps the Express’ winless streak at eight games.

Coquitlam’s Kendal Sands scored 10 points and Riverside secondary school grad Nwabuko Ozioma contributed two points in a 82-61 win by the Simon Fraser University women’s basketball team over Seattle Pacific University, Thursday at SFU.