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Langley’s Tanner Versluis scored the game winner with 1:23 left in regulation to give the Rivermen a 3-2 victory over the Coquitlam Express Friday at the Poirier Sports and Leisure Complex.

Coquitlam’s Larkyn Austman is second after Friday’s senior women’s short program at the Canadian Tire national skating championships in Saint John, N.B. Austman scored 64.

The Centennial Centaurs senior girls basketball team didn’t set up any soft touches for itself at their own Top Ten Shootout basketball tournament that began Wednesday.

Growing up, the pool proved to be a second home for three boys from Coquitlam. Now, it’s where a big part of their schooling is done.

Dallas Farrell’s second goal of the game, in overtime, gave the Coquitlam Express a 6-5 win over the Surrey Eagles in a special midweek afternoon BC Hockey League game, Wednesday at the Poirier Sports and Leisure Complex.

A pair of Coquitlam Express alumni have made the first round of consideration for the Hobey Baker Award as the top male college hockey player in the NCAA.

The Tri-Cities will be well represented at the Sport BC Athlete of the Year awards, to be held March 13 at the Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel in Vancouver.

The Terry Fox Ravens rebounded from their tough loss in Friday’s semifinal at the Jonathan Taylor Legal Beagle Invitational basketball tournament to finish in third place after defeating the Kelowna Owls, 70-51 on Saturday.

Newly-acquired Ty Westgard had four assists, and Regan Kimens scored a pair of goals along with one helper, to lead the Coquitlam Express to an 8-4 win over the Alberni Valley Bulldogs, in their BC Hockey League game Sunday at the Poirier Sports and

Meet record holder returns to Olympic Oval Feb. 2