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Catherine Polonio calls the Coquitlam Express her “boys.” But she’s much more than a super fan. For some of the players, she’s their “West Coast Mom.

As the crow flies, it’s almost 7,500 kms from Port Moody to St. John’s, N.L. As Doug Plumb bounces a basketball, it might be six times that distance.

The Port Moody Aquarians qualified 28 of its swimmers for the BC Speed Swimming Association’s provincial championships that will take place at Surrey’s Guildford Aquatic Centre, Aug. 16 to 19.

The West Coast Cardinals, that is comprised of players from Coquitlam, Port Moody, Port Coquitlam and Vancouver minor baseball, are heading to Flemington, N.J.

Racquetball seemed destined to become the next big thing when Coquitlam’s Calvin Smith fell in love with the sport.

Thirty-six hours after celebrating a second consecutive BC Junior A Lacrosse League championship , Coquitlam Adanacs’ coach Pat Coyle was “up to his elbows” in kitchen grease. One job is done, another waits to be tackled.

Adam Fulton scored three times, and Dylan Foulds added two more, to lead the Coquitlam Adanacs to an 11-6 win over the New Westminster Salmonbellies, and their second straight BC Junior A Lacrosse League championship, Sunday at Queen’s Park Arena in

The Coquitlam Adanacs broke a 2-2 tie with just over five minutes left in the first period of Friday's fifth game of their BC Junior A Lacrosse League final against the New Westminster Salmonbellies and never looked back.

Coquitlam Adanacs goalie Thomas Ungaro stops a Ridge Meadows Burrards forward at close range in the gold medal game of the 2018 BC Lacrosse Association Midget A1 provincial championships, last Sunday at Copeland Arena in Burnaby.

Taken at face value, the Coquitlam junior Adanacs’ 12-5 triumph over the New Westminster Salmonbellies on Tuesday appears to be as decisive a statement either team has made so far in the best-of-seven B.C. Junior A Lacrosse championship series.