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If there’s a school of hard knocks, Port Moody’s Ashlyn Arnold has the stamina to enrol for it. The teen taekwondo athlete is well-schooled in how to take a punch, strike and scissor kick and dish them out.

With a lineup chock-a-block with players from the Tri-Cities, Team BC rolled to the Midget championship at the Canadian Lacrosse Association female nationals, held recently in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

The mental resolve Erin Regan developed over 17 years of competitive figure skating to pick herself up and keep going after crashing hard to the ice is serving her well in her new sport, Aussie Rules Football. Now she crashes into other bodies.

While the junior Adanacs breathe the rarified air of playoff success, their senior counterparts will miss the Western Lacrosse Association post-season for a fourth straight year.

The Coquitlam Adanacs scored nine times in the third period Saturday to defeat the Victoria Shamrocks 15-11 and sweep their way into the BCJALL final that begins Friday against the New Westminster Salmonbellies.

Four Coquitlam lacrosse players returned from the female national box lacrosse championships in Halifax last week with a little more in their luggage than they left with. Presumably their silver medals fit in their carry-on bags.

James Linde’s “Andre de Grasse moment” didn’t happen at the Olympics but it could help propel the Coquitlam sprinter there.

The Port Coquitlam Saints, with their back against the wall, made a heroic push against B.C. Junior A Lacrosse League rival New Westminster, before succumbing 13-10 in Game 3 of their best-of-five semifinal series.

The Coquitlam Adanacs scored nine straight goals to erase a 3-1 first-period deficit and romp to a 14-5 win over the Victoria Shamrocks Sunday at the Q Centre.