Brendan Ranford set up Texas Stars teammate Travis Morin for the game-winning goal in overtime to give the NHL Dallas Stars affiliate a 2-1 win over the St. John’s Icecaps in the American Hockey League Calder Cup final on Wednesday.
Ranford, who has scored eight goals and tallied 13 points in the AHL playoffs, is currently a plus-five in the post season for the Stars.
Four to ID camp
Mountain United FC sent four of its under-14 female players to the Canadian Soccer Association identification camp this week.
Julia Grosso and Emma Regan came through the Clifff Avenue and Burnaby Girls programs, while Camila Hernandez was a teammate of the pair in Burnaby. Sophie Damian is a product of the North Shore Girls Club.
The Mountain United girls were four of the eight players from B.C. selected to the 30-player shortlist for the ID camp.
Best of the NW
Burnaby Minor baseball’s Theo Millas was chosen to play for B.C. Minor’s 13-and-under Select team that will be participating at the Canadian Amateur Baseball Association’s Best of the Northwest tournament in Spokane, Washington from June 20 to 22.
Millas was one of only 13 players selected to the represpentative team out of more than 120 hopefuls who tried out for the provincial team.
Dynamo results
Dynamo Swim Club posted some good results at a regional championship meet at Bonsor Pool last week.
Taia Yuen, 14, won gold in the 200-metre butterfly, while 13-year-old Naiomi Donald placed first at in the 800m freestyle. Samantha Skene, 13, also won a gold in the 200m free.
In the younger age groups, 10-year-old Eric Xiong won both the 50 and 100m free. Stefan Dukic, nine, was also a winner at in the 400m free.
Watershow
Burnaby Caprice is holding its annual year-end synchronized swimming watershow at C.G. Brown Pool on Saturday, June 14, beginning at 10:30 a.m.
The show includes the club’s recent provincial champions, as well as the adapted swim team.
Invited to camp
Two Burnaby Winter Club products were among eight players from B.C. invited to the under-17 Hockey Canada development camp roster.
Defenceman Dante Fabbro and forward Matt Barberis will attend the camp in Calgary from July 29 to Aug. 4.
Fabbro was the top blueliner in the B.C. major midget league, garnering 22 goals and 61 points. Barberis was drafted 20th overall by the Vancouver Giants of the Western Hockey League.
– Tom Berridge
