Local Sports

The B.C. Catholic high school basketball tournament has been played for a quarter of a century.

Coquitlam's Mike Laycraft first hopped aboard a dirt bike at age 8, and it's been smooth riding ever since -- unless you count his harrowing crash in a motorcyle track race four years ago.

Coquitlam Adanacs traded their ninth overall choice at the Feb. 6 Western Lacrosse Association draft to the Langley Thunder in exchange for goalie Aaron Bold, it was released last week.

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.