Local Sports

The Gleneagle Talons are gaining momentum at just the right time in AAAA boys high school basketball season.

With a berth in the AAA female high school basketball championships already locked up, it would be easy for the Riverside Rapids to lose focus in the final games of the Fraser Valley playoffs.

They may have only been playing together for three months, but Coquitlam's Team Drexel is already getting some attention in the curling world.

The Coquitlam Express have clinched a playoff spot and added another mark in the win column after a decisive victory over the visiting Salmon Arm SilverBacks Saturday night. Coquitlam currently sits in third place in the B.C.

Three members of the Tri-Cities Female Ice Hockey Association will be showing off their skills at the BC Winter Games in Mission this week.

The world's eyes may be focused on the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, but for a handful of Tri-City athletes there is one competition that is even more important.

A four-goal lead was not enough for the Vancouver Northeast Chiefs. The Chiefs fell 8-5 to their Lower Mainland rival Vancouver Northwest Giants in front of a hometown crowd at Planet Ice in Coquitlam Saturday.

The CMFSC Renegades managed to survive a late charge from the Port Coquitlam Dynamite in U12 girls soccer action on the weekend. The dominant Renegades defence kept the Dynamite off the scoreboard until the final minutes in a 2-1 win.

Port Coquitlam's Dan Stroup will guide the Team BC women's field lacrosse program for 2014.

A crowd has formed atop the Fraser Valley North division as B.C. high school basketball winds through the final week of the regular season.