Local Sports

The year is 1866 and much of the talk in Charlestown, New Hampshire centres on Pastor Livingston Stone and his fascination with propagating fish in the Cold Spring Trout Ponds a few hundred yards from his church.

Connor Adair of the Pinetree Timberwolves and Kelsey Watmough of host Terry Fox were named outstanding male and female wrestlers at last Friday's Raven Invite high school meet.

Coquitlam Express had their eight-game winning streak snapped Saturday when they were thumped 6-2 by the host Vernon Vipers. The B.C.

Coquitlam's Adam Rockwood won the Breakaway Shooter Challenge during the skills competition at Friday's 2012 Major Midget Hockey League all-star game at Poirier Sports Complex.

The ever-steep cost of car fuel had nothing to do with the Riverside Rapids' flame-out in Saturday's final of the Centennial Centaurs Top-10 Shootout. It did apply, however, to Rapids head coach Paul Langford's assessment of his squad later.

Simon Fraser Clan university women's basketball guard Kristina Collins of Port Coquitlam has been named the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (NCAA Div. 2) Player of the Week.

It's been a week to remember - and a year to forget - for courageous Coquitlam gymnast Brittany Rogers.

Port Coquitlam's Kristina Collins poured in a team-high 18 points, including five three-pointers, to spark the Simon Fraser Clan to a 77-69 triumph Thursday over the Alaska Anchorage Seawolves in a university women's basketball game on Burnaby Mounta

Following seven straight wins -- all at home -- the B.C. Hockey League's Coquitlam Express will be tested this weekend when they travel to tangle with two Interior Conference foes.

I have always known that the U.S. has many times eclipsed Canada, and in particular B.C., in the running battle over prominence for the world's best of salmon and trout fisheries.