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A United ball carrier is swarmed by Bayside tacklers in their BC Rugby Union Div. 2 men's match, Saturday at Hume Park in New Westminster. United lost the match, 22-18. The Div.

If you didn’t know there was a curling rink at the Port Moody recreation complex, you will.

The Maple Ridge Burrards couldn’t hold a lead in their Mann Cup final against the Peterborough Lakers since halfway through the first period of the second game.

They know their future, but the Douglas College women’s Royals soccer team want to cinch their destiny.

While the Douglas College Royals’ women’s team already has a place in their national final booked as the host team, the men are hungry to step up to a championship themselves after losing last year’s final to the Vancouver Island University Mariners.

Unless the Maple Ridge Burrards can find some scoring, they’ll have travelled a long way to lose a short series. The Burrards lost 11-6 to the Peterborough Lakers in Monday’s third game of their best-of-seven Mann Cup final in Peterborough.

Coquitlam Express goalie Kolby Matthews stopped 29 of the 30 shots the Langley Rivermen fired at him Saturday night in their BC Hockey League game at the George Preston Arena in Langley. But it wasn’t enough as the hosts beat their visitors 2-0.

The Maple Ridge Burrards let the second game of the Mann Cup get away from them. Then they let their emotions get away too.

A furious comeback by the Maple Ridge Burrards in the third period was snuffed by Peterborough’s Adam Jones almost five minutes into the sudden-death second period of overtime to give the Lakers a 14-13 in the first game of their best-of-seven Mann C

So far, the SFU Clan men’s soccer team is living up to its pre-season billing.