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Game on, or, more aptly, series on. Delta Islanders bounced back from a 12-7 loss Tuesday at Poirier Sports Complex to even their best-of-seven B.C. Junior 'A' lacrosse league playoff final series with the Coquitlam Jr.

The Canadian women's soccer squad advanced Friday to the semifinals at the London 2012 Olympics, and Coquitlam's Brittany Timko made her Games' debut late in the contest to help secure its spot in the final four.

Jordan Flaman whipped in the deciding goal three minutes into overtime as the Tri-City Bandits went on to an 8-5 triumph Wednesday over the Timbermen in Nanaimo.

One look and Lee Windsor was hooked. The 41-year-old Langley resident is a proud member of the Free Agents women's roller derby team, which hits the floor tomorrow (Friday) at 7 p.m. at Poirier Sports Complex versus the Freedom Fighters.

Kevin Ko of Coquitlam was on the three-member Team BC that won the inter-provincial golf team title at the 2012 Canadian Junior boys championship Wednesday in Bridgewater, N.S.

Coquitlam native Steve Kandborg experienced several highlights this summer competing in his first season with New York's Cooperstown Hawkeyes of the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League.

* Gina Rogers, mother of Coquitlam gymnast Brittany Rogers , will be contributing a blog regularly for The Tri-City News during the London 2012 Olympics.

Four players pumped in two goals apiece as the Tri-City Bandits tripped the Nanaimo Timbermen 12-8 Monday in a West Coast Senior 'B' lacrosse league playoff game at PoCo Rec Centre. Andrew Murphy, Darren McEwen, Mac Davis and PoCo Saints' Jr.

Some Thai flavour will spice things up at the 2012 CN Canadian Women's Open golf championship Aug. 20-26 at Coquitlam's Vancouver Golf Club.

I n fewer than two hours Sunday, Coquitlam's Brittany Rogers and the Canadian women's gymnastics team vaulted -- literally and figuratively -- to unprecedented heights at the London 2012 Olympics.