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Rylan Smaaslet tallied his second touchdown of the day Sunday when it mattered most.

Jasmin Glaesser of Coquitlam raced to an amazing seventh place in the women's Omnium as the 2012 UCI Track World Cup cycling tour kicked off last weekend in Astana, Kazakhstan.

Megan Pinske is jumping to Germany. A Coquitlam native and former Port Moody Blues high school standout, the point-guard Pinske has inked a one-year contract to play on the TV Saarlouis Royals of Germany's Damen Basketball Bundesliga (DBBL).

The results indicated the Riverside Rapids had a monopoly on the competition at last weekend's high-calibre Red Serge Classic senior girls high school volleyball tournament in Port Coquitlam.

Port Moody Black Panthers scored seven goals Saturday, then surrendered seven Sunday. The see-saw weekend saw the Cats out-gun the Ridge Flames 7-4 at PoMo Rec Complex before getting drilled 7-1 the next day by the host Grandview Steelers.

If the B.C. Hockey League's Coastal Conference got any tighter, you'd need a power wrench to pry the teams apart.

It was billed as the Great Coquitlam Shootout. Only the Terry Fox Ravens brought butter fingers instead of bullets.

With the opening of steelhead on the Thompson River once again, I want to take this opportunity to dwell on these highly prized fish.

"Yahoooo!" Randall Johansen's text message earlier this week to a Tri-City News' reporter summed it all up after he learned his son, Ryan, was being retained for what appears the rest of the NHL season by the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Demarius Henderson ran for five touchdowns Sunday -- only two were called back on penalties.