Local Sports

The Port Moody Soccer Club is kicking up its game.

Ben Nichols won six medals and set three club records to lead the PoCo Marlins’ success at the recent B.C. Summer Swimming Association provincial championships at Surrey’s Guildford Recreation Centre.

Even as their Minto Cup dream threatened to crash down around them, the Coquitlam Adanacs kept their eyes on the prize.

The Coquitlam Adanacs and Brampton Excelsiors will play a fourth game in their best-of-five Minto Cup final.

A pair of third-period goals by Dennon Armstrong and Ethan Ticehurst snuffed a furious comeback by the Brampton Excelsiors and propelled the Coquitlam Adanacs to a 8-6 victory in the second game of their best-of-five Minto Cup final, Thursday in Calg

The Coquitlam Adanacs and Brampton Excelsiors will play game two of their best-of-five Minto Cup championship series tonight at the Max Bell Arena in Calgary. The opening face-off is scheduled for 8 p.m. Mountain Time (7 p.m. Pacific Time).

The Greater Vancouver area measures up to some of the best cycling cities in the world, says a new book by a pair of cyclists from Belcarra who’ve pedalled all around the globe, including Copenhagen, Amsterdam, London, New York and Old Mumbai.

The Coquitlam Adanacs lead the Minto Cup final over the Brampton Excelsiors 1-0, but whether the teams will be able to continue their best-of-five series was still unknown as of early Thursday afternoon.

The playoff beard is one of hockey’s enduring traditions. Jason Fortier is growing a reverse playoff beard.

The Coquitlam Adanacs scored four goals in less than three minutes early in the third period to erase a 6-5 deficit and take the first game of their best-of-five Minto Cup final over the Brampton Excelsiors, 11-9.