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The Port Coquitlam Saints season came to an unceremonious end Friday. The Saints were trounced 13-2 by the visiting Langley Thunder to be swept from the quarterfinals in the B.C. Junior A Lacrosse League.

Port Coquitlam fell just short in their quest for provincial gold at the female minor box lacrosse championships on the weekend.

With less than a week to go in the regular season, the Coquitlam Reds are in the middle of the pack in the B.C. Premier Baseball League standings, a game behind the fifth place Victoria Eagles.

Wins are not coming easy for the Coquitlam Adanacs, whose latest defeat came at the hands of the Victoria Shamrocks at the Poirier Sports and Leisure Complex last weekend.

The Coquitlam Jr. Adanacs will head in to the B.C. Junior 'A' Lacrosse League post season as the top team in the league, after defeating the Delta Islanders Saturday night.

When the New York Rangers drafted former Port Moody resident Adam Tambellini last Sunday, they were choosing more than just a name synonymous with hockey excellence.

There has been a major shakeup within the Coquitlam senior Adanacs' organization: four players defected to other teams in the 11th hour of the trade deadline - and general manager Randy Delmonico was fired in the aftermath.

This week's heat wave will help Port Moody's Kris McCrea acclimatize to the plus 30-degree Celsius temperatures in Porto, Portugal, where he will be competing in the U19 beach volleyball world championship July 11 to 14.

Port Coquitlam hockey product Evan Campbell had the quintessential Canada Day weekend: while enjoying a family barbecue on Sunday afternoon, he got a text saying he had been drafted by the Edmonton Oilers.

Coquitlam's Sydney Veljacic will be mixing business with field hockey prowess when she arrives at the University of Maine for the start of her full-ride athletic scholarship this fall.