Local Sports

Rain, rain, rain. It has been continuous this year. While a day or two, or even a week, of rain can be a boost to fishing in summer, during the rest of the year it brings things to a grinding halt.

Five different players struck net as the Dr. Charles Best Blue Devils danced past the Riverside Rapids 5-1 Wednesday in a Fraser Valley North AAA senior girls high school soccer league game at Gates Park.

Coquitlam's Kevin Vigna fired a sizzling six-under-par last weekend but saved his best shot for last.

True to their name, the Gunners won the war of the Ports on Saturday at South Surrey Athletic Park.

The back-end blockade of Tri-City Predators goalie Nicole Grandinetti and Coquitlam defender Michelle Samaei helped Team Fraser Valley dump Great Vancouver 4-1 to claim the gold medal at the B.C.

Tri-City and the Coquitlam Beer Hunters both fell short in their bids to make Sunday's final in the B.C. provincial men's field lacrosse championships at Town Centre Park.

There was no place like home plate on the weekend for the Coquitlam Reds. The hitting-wizard Reds racked up 37 runs in five games as hosts of a five-team B.C.

Defending-champion Derek Winterman of Port Coquitlam finished a mere one-100th of a second behind Nelson's Mark Fawcett to place second in the Pro Men's division at last week's 14th annual Neil Edgeworth banked slalom ski race at Kelowna's Big White

Tom Kudaba of the Terry Fox Ravens will be back as head coach of the B.C. Under-18 team that will compete in the 2011 Football Canada Cup from July 9-16 in Lethbridge, Alta. Kudaba is among five returning members on the coaching staff that guided B.

Spring is finally here. I, for one, hope the recent warm weather is not another false start to the season and the prolific fishing for which we've been waiting.