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The Terry Fox Ravens senior boys soccer team will play for third place in the Fraser Valley playdowns. The Ravens lost their semifinal match against the Abbotsford Panthers, 1-0, at Gates Park in Port Coquitlam.

Larkyn Austman’s skating season is not going quite as she’d planned.

Kayla Halliday is nonplussed as she laces up her figure skates across from Canadian Olympian Larkyn Austman prior to an afternoon training session at the Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex.

The Douglas College Royals women’s soccer team are disappointed they didn’t win their way into the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association’s national championship that begins tomorrow at Coquitlam’s Percy Perry Stadium.

The Terry Fox Ravens will host the Carson Graham Eagles, from North Vancouver, in the first round of the BC Secondary Schools Football Association playoffs on Saturday. The game will be played at 5:30 p.m.

The Riverside Rapids were gracious hosts for the annual Red Serge Classic senior girls high school volleyball tournament last weekend. The Rapids, ranked 10th in the province prior to the tournament, finished fourth.

It was a wild night for Joshua Wildauer.

Coquitlam’s Marcello Polisi made his only shot on net count, as the Simon Fraser University Clan captain scored his second goal of the season Thursday against Western Washington University in Bellingham.

The Coquitlam Express couldn’t hold onto a 3-1 lead they’d built early in the second period and lost 4-3 to the Langley Rivermen in a special BC Hockey League matinee game Wednesday at the Poirier Sports and Leisure Complex.

Dennis Marchant celebrated his 40th birthday recently with three steaks and half an ice cream cake. He earned them. Earlier this month, the Coquitlam accountant finished 35th in the Moab 240 ultramarathon in Utah.