Local Sports

PoCo Pirates Midget A1 hockey squad paraded past the competition at last weekend's Portland Jr. Winterhawks President's Cup Classic and bagged the championship banner in the Oregon city.

Manar Kulkan, Penioni Drikibau and Steve Levis scored a try apiece as the Tri-Cities-flavoured United club licked Langley 19-2 in a Div. 1 men's rugby contest Saturday at Hume Park. Two converts were booted by Nick Hammerschmidt for 2-0 United.

Michelle Rosenquist and Chenille Lafleur scored but their Coquitlam Metro-Ford Panthers fell 4-2 to North Shore in girls U-16 Silver 'A' soccer play Sunday.

Ihave heard many things criticized within the local sport fishing community but the one I was recently told beats all. Those of us who can mark off 50 or more fish days are apparently now the "bad guys.

Port Moody Black Panthers peppered more shots Wednesday at the Ridge Meadows Flames' cage than what reputedly hit depression-era gangsters Bonnie and Clyde. All but one back-fired on them.

Port Coquitlam's Kristina Collins of the Simon Fraser Clan university women's basketball team was chosen Thursday to the Great Northwest Athletic Conference academic all-conference team. A sophomore and Riverside Rapids' grad, Collins owns a 3.

With their backs against the wall on the weekend and an eye still on the playoffs, the Coquitlam Express amazingly found a sudden nose for the net. And a whole bunch of backsides were in the seats to witness it. The B.C.

Felitche Hutchinson, Michael Mobilio and Ross Merton knocked in a goal apiece to spark Coquitlam Metro-Ford Barca to a 3-0 triumph over Surrey-Guildford United in a boys Under-16 Select soccer league game Saturday at Charles Best field.

?? The game was half over -- and looking all but finished -- Monday for the Port Moody Black Panthers. Then they sprang to life.

-: CLEANED :- Port Coquitlam sprinter Andrew Boss of the Simon Fraser Clan was named Male Athlete of the Meet at the 2011 Great Northwest Athletic Conference (NCAA Div. 2) indoor track and field championships Saturday in Nampa, Idaho.