Local Sports

Twenty down, one to go. Coquitlam Jr. Adanacs are on the cusp of a squeaky-clean regular season, after burying the Burnaby Jr. Lakers 15-5 in a B.C. Junior 'A' lacrosse league game Wednesday at the Poirier Sports and Leisure Complex.

Defending-champion Jennifer Yang of Coquitlam shot a solid one-under par 71 to seize the second-round lead Wednesday at the B.C. Junior Girls Golf Championship at Eaglepoint Resort in Kamloops.

Former Coquitlam youth soccer standout Sydney Leroux pounded home four goals Saturday to carry the Vancouver Whitecaps FC women to a 5-0 romp over the Victoria Highlanders at Richmond's Minoru Park.

It was a sun-burned Sunday for many of us who got out fishing over the Canada Day long weekend. I am sure there are some who, like my youngest child, encountered the misadventure of sun stroke.

Coquitlam-Moody Reds conquered the competition at last weekend's Lorne Upsdell Peewee AAA baseball tournament in Ridge Meadows. Now they're set to take on the world.

Les Wingrove got to see his Coquitlam Adanacs from a different viewpoint on the weekend. The bench.

Coquitlam's Taylor Heinrichs will be springing down court for the Spartans next fall. The six-foot-seven wing has signed on with Langley's Trinity Western University to toil on the Spartans men's basketball squad.