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Head coach Rick Mang told his Port Moody Bandits before Wednesday's game the Langley Warriors had no business as so much scoring a goal. And they didn't.

He played the day his dad died. He played the day after he had 52 stitches sewn into his wrist following extensive surgery.

Team BC made it back-to-back bronze medals at the 2011 Football Canada Cup.

Port Moody Bandits opened the playoffs with a bang Monday. T.J. Beley buried three goals as the the Bandits blitzed the Langley Warriors 12-4 at PoMo Receation Complex in the first game of a best-of-three West Coast Sr.

Coquitlam Adanacs clipped their Tri-City rivals, the Port Coquitlam Saints, 5-1 to claim the gold medal in the A1 division at the B.C. Lacrosse Association's provincial Bantam championships that wrapped up Sunday in Victoria.

Ex-Coquitlam youth soccer standout Sydney Leroux scored twice as the Vancouver Whitecaps FC women stormed back to tie the Colorado Force 3-3 in W League soccer action Friday at Langley's McLeod Athletic Park.

Simon Fraser University men's field lacrosse team placed two players -- freshman standout Calvin Craig of Coquitlam and senior captain Luke Genereux of Port Coquitlam -- on the 2011 list of Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association Scholar Athletes.

Coquitlam Adanacs have made the Western Lacrosse Association playoffs every year since 1997. The way things are going, 2011 may be the end of that handsome run.