Local Sports

Riverside Rapids went in as No. 1 and came out No. 2 at the B.C. AAAA senior girls high school volleyball provincial championships last weekend in North Vancouver.

The only thing better than beating the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the province, as the Terry Fox Ravens did last week, is doing so in three months. Ranked No. 8 in the most-recent B.C.

An aching shin didn't stop Tamara O'Brien of Port Coquitlam's TAG Sports Centre from claiming fifth spot in tumbling and sixth in double-mini trampoline at the World Age Group gymnastics championships last week in Birmingham, England.

Four Coquitlam Skating Club members finished first in their respective divisions at the Jingle Blades competition Nov. 25-27 in White Rock.

Coquitlam Express were pleased winning two of three games last weekend. They came oh so close to being ecstatic.

Port Coquitlam's Kristina Collins sizzled Saturday and the Simon Fraser Clan cooked the Montana State Billings Yellowjackets.

Port Moody Black Panthers coughed up a late shorthanded goal and fell 5-4 Saturday to the Grandview Steelers in Pacific International Jr. B hockey play in PoMo.

Liz Stewart hammered home a pair of goals as the Coquitlam Metro-Ford Dynamite blasted North Shore UFO 6-0 in a girls Under-15 Bronze soccer game Sunday at Town Centre Park.

Wesley Berg of the Coquitlam Jr. Adanacs was among 24 players -- five from B.C.

Four Tri-City players were members of the Burnaby Mountain Selects senior elite team that went 2-3-1 at the prestigious Dave Cottle Fall Invitational field lacrosse tournament earlier this month in Baltimore, Md.