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Port Coquitlam’s Alia Stachoski pitched three victories — including a two-hit shutout — last weekend to lead the Simon Fraser University Clan women’s softball team to its first Great Northwest Athletic Conference playoff berth in five years.

The Riverside Rapids senior girls soccer team won its first Fraser Valley North championship when it defeated Heritage Woods 3-0 on Monday.

Sprint star will lead Canada into challenge event with China

For 17-year-old Ziyana Samanani, the toughest part of living on her own so she can play soccer in Port Moody and Coquitlam isn’t shopping for groceries and cooking for herself, or managing her time, or resisting the temptation to party.

The Port Coquitlam Saints spotted the visiting Victoria Shamrocks a 1-0 lead less than two minutes into their BC Junior A Lacrosse League season opener, then scored the next seven goals in a row to a romp to an 11-5 win Sunday at the PoCo rec centre.

The Terry Fox Ravens defeated the Riverside Rapids 34-0 in a crosstown showdown of senior boys rugby rivals at Terry Fox secondary school on Monday.

The Riverside Rapids defeated W.J. Mouat in Tier II high school rugby, 50-5, Tuesday at Riverside secondary school. The victory improved their record to five wins against no losses.

Success is blowing in the wind for the Rocky Point Sailing Association.

The playoff fate of the Simon Fraser University Clan women’s softball team will be decided in a pair of doubleheaders on the road this weekend.

The eighth-ranked Centennial Centaurs beat the third-ranked Dr. Charles Best Blue Devils, 2-0, in their Fraser Valley North senior girls high school soccer match Wednesday at Coquitlam Town Centre Park.