Local Sports

Nevan Flay didn’t grow up with a hockey stick in his hands. But he did get an early start with skates on his feet.

A beloved Port Moody coach who guided the St. Thomas More Knights football team since 2000 passed away late Saturday evening. Bernie Kully was 41 when he succumbed to the throat cancer that was diagnosed in December.

Mountain biking has come a long way in 30 years.

Port Moody’s Justin Abdou is the new head coach of the women’s wrestling team at Simon Fraser University. That’s in addition to his responsibilities with the men’s team, that he’s coached for almost 20 years.

It’s spring in Australia so the touring teams of netball players set to visit Gleneagle secondary school for some exhibition games on Sept. 28 will just be coming into form for their season. Their hosts, however, don’t start playing until April.

Even when they really didn’t want to, the top-ranked Terry Fox Ravens couldn’t help getting the ball over the goal line in a 79-0 win over W.J. Mouat in their BC high school football game Abbostsord on Friday.

Coquitlam’s Matteo Polisi scored two goals and set up another to lead the Simon Fraser University Clan men’s soccer team to a 5-1 win over St. Martin’s University Saints Saturday at Terry Fox Field in Burnaby.

For the third straight game, the Coquitlam Express scored first but still couldn’t build on that to register their first win of the BC Hockey League season as they dropped a 4-2 decision to the Victoria Grizzlies on Sunday at the annual league showca