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Standout linebacker Jake Nylund is not travelling in the August heat to Quebec today (Friday) with the 30-plus other Terry Fox Raven football players. Instead, he's staying home -- thinking about December.

Port Moody martial arts student Ivett Gonda made history on Tuesday by winning bronze in taekwondo at the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China, becoming the first ever Canadian to earn a taekwondo medal in the history of the games.

The Simon Fraser University Clan Athletics department regretfully announced Wednesday that former men's soccer head coach Keith Watts passed away Friday in Ireland. The Watts family plans on having a service overseas as well as one in Canada.

Port Moody's Ally Shin placed a most respectable third at the B.C. Juvenile girls golf championship last week at Powell River's Myrtle Point Golf Club. Nobody was a match, however, for West Vancouver's Alix Kong.

Port Moody Bandits are going to the 2011 President's Cup after all. Members of the West Coast Sr. B lacrosse league squad had originally agreed they would not pay their own way to Akwesasne, Ont.

Coquitlam-Moody Reds zoomed into Sunday's final at the B.C. Peewee AAA provincial baseball championships. Then the fuel tank hit empty. The host Reds were stomped 9-2 by Abbotsford and settled for the silver medal at Coquitlam Town Centre Park.

Ex-Poco Jr. Saints player Matt Laustrup of the New West Salmonbellies has been suspended two games for leaving the bench to enter an altercation in Saturday's Game 2 of the WLA playoff final versus Langley.

Coquitlam Jr. Adanacs got off to a flying start with a pair of convincing wins at the Minto Cup national Jr. 'A' lacrosse championships. Now the trick is to maintain their altitude. The defending-champion Jr.