Local Sports

For most of the season Express fans and opposing defenceman have been keenly aware of what Coquitlam forward Alex Petan can do with the puck.

Nine players from the Tri-Cities were members of the gold-medal winning Fraser Valley (Zone 3) team at the BC Winter Games in Vernon.

Recently I met a fellow, Todd, who is beginning his journey as a sport fishing writer.

Port Moody Black Panthers miss Brandon Millin, who rarely misses the net toiling now with the Notre Dame Hounds .

Hodson Harding is set to soar with the Rice University Owls . The spectacular sprinter currently in Grade 12 at Gleneagle secondary school signed a letter of intent earlier this week to join the Owls of Houston, Texas and the heralded NCAA Div.

Michelle Beattaur zipped in three goals to lead the Coquitlam-Moody Lightning Rings Under-10 ringette squad to a 9-7 victory over Surrey-White Rock, marking just the Rings' second win of the season.

Port Moody Panthers Peewee A1 hockey team dug its claws into the competition at a non-hitting President's Day tournament Feb. 17-20 in Las Vegas.

Athletes from Vancouver-Squamish topped the medal standings as the 2012 BC Winter Games concluded on the weekend in Vernon.

Coquitlam's Zachary and Nicholas Umbach were part of the Tyler Tardi rink from Langley that won gold for Zone 3 (Fraser Valley) in Juvenile Men's curling at last weekend's BC Winter Games in Vernon.

Riverside Rapids won 25 straight games before losing in the final of last month's Centennial Centaurs' Top-10 Shootout tournament. The team they finally lost to was Langley's Brookswood Bobcats.