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Burnaby Sports Briefs

Burnaby Lake Sports Complex-West will be the venue for the national youth field lacrosse championships this week. Connor Robinson of New Westminster will be among Team B.C.

Burnaby Lake Sports Complex-West will be the venue for the national youth field lacrosse championships this week.

Connor Robinson of New Westminster will be among Team B.C.'s under-16 squad hoping to bring home the Alumni Cup against Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario and Saskatchewan.

The u-19 First Nations Cup will run in conjunction with the teens' championship at Burnaby Lake, beginning Friday and running until Sunday.

Justin Goodwin, Drew House and goalie Rocky Bowman of New Westminster will make a part of the u-19 B.C., which will compete agaist Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Team Atlantic.

Games run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday. On Sunday morning preliminary games finish off, with u-16 medal matches beginning at 12: 30 p.m. The finals of the First Nations Cup follow at 3: 15 p.m.

WESBURN TOURNEY

The 29th annual Wesburn Youth Soccer Club's Labour Day tournament will run Friday to holiday Monday.

Come watch silver and gold level soccer from under-11 to -18. Games will be played at Riverway and Burnaby Lake-West soccer complexes.

STEALTH SIGNINGS

Cam Sedgwick and Curtis Hodgson have both re-signed for an eighth season with the NLL Washington Stealth pro lacrosse club.

Sedgwick has scored 139 goals and garnered 406 total points in 133 regular season games.

Hodgson ranks ninth all-time with 394 loose balls for the Stealth.

FIRST GP SKATE

Burnaby figure skater Nam Nguyen will make his first-ever appearance on the junior Grand Prix circuit in Latvia this weekend.

The now 13-yearold skater is the youngest national champion in Canada, having won three consecutive nationals, including pre-novice and novice titles, beginning with the juvenile title at age eight.

Nguyen also became the youngest junior men's champion this year, winning his fourth national figure skating title while still just 12.