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Local teams find success at tournaments

Centennial Centaurs' Daniella Iacobucci fights her way through a forest of Burnaby North defenders in their game to decide third place at the St. Thomas More Chancellor girls basketball tournament in Burnaby on Saturday.
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Centennial Centaurs' Daniella Iacobucci fights her way through a forest of Burnaby North defenders in their game to decide third place at the St. Thomas More Chancellor girls basketball tournament in Burnaby on Saturday.

Centennial Centaurs' Daniella Iacobucci fights her way through a forest of Burnaby North defenders in their game to decide third place at the St. Thomas More Chancellor girls basketball tournament in Burnaby on Saturday.

Centennial won the game after an earlier win to Lambrick Park and a loss to the host team that went on to defeat the Terry Fox Ravens in the championship final, 58-48.

Centennial's Grace Killins was named to the tournament's first all-star team along with Emily Matsui and Laura Santamaria from Terry Fox. Opeyemi Balogan, of the Centaurs, also made the second all-star team.

In other girls' tournament action, the Riverside Rapids won the Victoria Christmas tournament, defeating Oak Park 86-84 in Saturday's final at the University of Victoria. It was the third big win for the Port Coquitlam school, which earlier sandwiched victories over the top-ranked team from Manitoba, Bishop Grandin, and B.C.'s fifth-ranked Brookswood, around an 83-37 win over Nanaimo District.

The top-ranked team in the province, Walnut Groves, finished fifth in the tournament.