Local Sports

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.

Hodson Harding of the Coquitlam Cheetahs sprinted to a pair of silver medals at Saturday's Las Vegas Classic track and field meet at Del Sol high school in Nevada. Harding was second in the men's 400 metres in a time of 49.

Coach Kyle Williams figures the only missing ingredient currently on the Coquitlam Reds is a sure-fire fourth starter in his pitching rotation. He's not particularly worried, given the regular season has yet to so much as crack open.

Coquitlam's Cara Lukawesky made a great pitch for top player Friday at Burnaby Mountain's Beedie Field. A bunch of them, actually.

If they weren't already long-called the Adanacs, Coquitlam's Sr. 'A' lacrosse team might want to consider adopting the nickname Roughnecks.