Local Sports

Port Moody Redtails turned bronze at the B.C. provincial Squirt 'C' (11-12) fastpitch championships last weekend in Kamloops.

Charlie Girdler and Athen Yuen whipped in three goals apiece as the Port Moody Bandits tripped the Valley Rebels 13-12 in a West Coast Sr. 'B' lacrosse league game Friday in Abbotsford.

It wasn't as easy as one-two-three. It just looked that way for Tri-City shooters at the B.C. Junior Girls Golf Championship last week at Eaglepoint Resort in Kamloops.

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.