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Tickets go on sale Monday for the Canuck Alumni versus Coquitlam Firefighters fund-raiser exhibition hockey game Dec. 2 to benefit the PoCoMo Youth Services Society. The game goes 7 p.m. at the Poirier St. main rink. For more information, visit www.

First, the Port Moody Black Panthers blanketed the Ridge Meadows Flames. Then the Cats got utterly smothered by the Richmond Sockeyes.

Coquitlam's Carlo Basso keeps racking up the goals, and his SFU Clan keep piling up the wins. The Clan university men's soccer team won a wild game Saturday, defeating host Hawaii Pacific University, 5-1.

Coquitlam Express posted a pair of key victories but star forward Alex Petan was the biggest winner last weekend.

Win 12-10, lose 12-10. That was Saturday for the Coquitlam-based United Rugby Club. Right after the United Div. 2 men's squad tripped Langley 12-10, its Div. 1 contingent fell by the identical count to same club at New Wesminster's Hume Park.

"It is ironic that fishing is one of America's top participant sports, and fly fishermen are at the top of the heap, intellectually, yet our language and understanding of what makes fly casting work are at first-grade level.

Darrel Gelera bolted for a pair of touchdowns as the Coquitlam Raiders blasted the North Delta Longhorns 36-0 in a VMFL Jr. Bantam game Sunday at Kevin Chin Field. Liam Stewart, Sean Stewart and Tony Dhillon had the Raiders' remaining majors.

Steve Hanson has some big sneakers to fill. Well, small ones, actually.

UBC Thunderbirds soccer forward Janine Frazao of Port Moody has won Canada West Female Athlete of the Week honours. Frazao scored four goals in two games on the weekend to lead UBC to road wins against Manitoba and Regina.