Canada’s under-15 national girls’ soccer team qualified for the quarter-finals at the CONCACAF championships in the Cayman Islands.
Former Burnaby Girls Soccer Club striker Camila Gomez Hernandez scored two goals in a 6-0 win over Cuba that earned a spot in the final eight for Canada.
The Canadians, including Mountain United FC players Julia Grosso and Emma Regan of Burnaby, opened the inaugural tournament with a 5-0 win over Puerto Rico.
Canada drew 1-1 with Haiti on Monday to finish pool play on top of the group.
The girls will take on Costa Rica today (Wednesday) in the quarter-finals.
Row to worlds
The Burnaby Lake Rowing Club will send two members to the world rowing championships in Amsterdam, Netherlands later this month.
Lauren Wilkinson was named to Canada’s women’s eight crew, while Michael Wilkinson will row with Steven van Knotsenburg in the men’s double sculls.
First in 25 years
Burnaby Central Secondary grad Amar Dhesi won Canada’s first junior world wrestling medal since 1989, taking the silver medal in the heavyweight division at the junior freestyle championships in Zagreb, Hungary last week.
Dhesi three matches before dropping the final on points to defending two-time champion Geno Petriashvili of Georgia.
Burnaby’s Darthe Capellan lost his quarter-final match at the junior worlds. Capellan was outpointed 15-14 by eventual fifth-place finisher Puntsag Erdenebileg of Mongolia in the 55-kilogram division.
Khalsa clipped in Kennedy
Three-time champion IPS Marathon Taverna defeated Pacific Coast Soccer League premier men’s season and playoff champion Khalsa Sporting Club 3-1 in the final of the J.F. Kennedy Cup soccer tournament in Portland, Oregon on Sunday.
