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Port Moody's Kelsey Binns canned 16 points to help the Simon Fraser Clan to an 83-61 triumph over the Manitoba Bisons in a Canada West university women's basketball game Wednesday in Burnaby.

By Kevin Glew Special to The Tri-City News Heplayed with Rollie Fingers before the moustache and Reggie Jackson before the swagger.

How does a gifted basketball player at a high school with no volleyball program get a university scholarship to play the latter sport? Well, it certainly helps when you're six-foot-six, can manoeuvre like a gazelle, and can jump out of the gym.

Port Moody Black Panthers out-shot the best the Harold Brittain Conference has to offer Wednesday. They darn near out-scored them, too.

First, Mallory Sall netted a university athletic scholarship. Now her Riverside Rapids' teammate, Katie Woo, has made her own post-secondary smash.

If you don't get that Christmas gift for your angler this week, it will be nothing but excuses. You might think that by this time much of the popular fishing equipment, at most shops, will be well picked over and you may be right.

Kristina Collins of Port Coquitlam drained 10 points but her Simon Fraser Clan fell 65-57 in overtime to the Grand Canyon Antelopes in a university women's basketball game Monday in Arizona The loss dropped the Clan to 5-3 heading into the Christmas