Local Sports

The national anthem is 'O Canada' but Coquitlam's Sydney Veljacic was singing a different -- albeit very similar -- tune heading into this week.

Three Coquitlam players will be on the Canadian junior national Under-17 team when it takes on the Americans in the USA-Canada Field Hockey Challenge running April 4-8 at West Vancouver's Rutledge Field.

The Spring Family Sports Fair, presented by the Coquitlam Sports Hall of Fame , runs tomorrow (Saturday) from noon to 5 p.m. at the Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex.

Things have not been coming up roses exactly of late for Coquitlam Adanacs rookie general manager Randy Delmonico regarding his goaltending situation, so he swung into action and sprouted Adam Shute.

Cody Didyk, Michael Dicks and Dakota Heth, all of Port Coquitlam, were part of the six-person Team BC squad that competing in last weekend's 2012 Youth Challenge national 5-pin bowling competition in Winnipeg.

PoCo Atom C5 Pirates built a 3-0 lead and hung on for a hard-fought 3-2 triumph over Campbell River in the gold-medal game at the 3rd annual Debbie Cooper Memorial minor hockey tournament last weekend in Victoria.

Coquitlam's Kevin Vigna put together one of the best rounds of the early season on Sunday firing a final-round three-under 69 to catapult him into the winners' circle at Vancouver's University Golf Club in the Canadian Junior Golf Association 'sB.C.

It will be a youth soccer extravaganza on the weekend in and around the Tri-Cities.

It was the comeback of the year and, possibly, the decade. Down 31-0 at halftime, Coquitlam-based United stormed back with 36 unanswered points in the second half on way to a wild 36-31 triumph Saturday over visiting Abbotsford in a B.C.

Coquitlam's Haislan Garcia was one of four Canadian wrestlers to qualify Sunday for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, England after winning gold in the men's 66 kg class at the FILA Pan-American Games in Kissimmee, Fla.