New Westminster's Rich Catton was named the head coach of the B.C. bantam boys’ box lacrosse team.
The bantam, midget and peewee nationals will be co-hosted by the New Westminster and Coquitlam minor lacrosse associations from Aug. 4 to 9.
B.C. Lacrosse also has high performance programs for box and field in female junior, midget and bantam divisions.
For Team B.C. athlete tryout information, please visit the B.C. Lacrosse Association website at www.bclacrosse.com and click on Team B.C. page.
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Former B.C. Hockey League top scorer Carlo Finucci of Burnaby recorded his 16th and 17th assists of the season for the Las Vegas Wranglers in East Coast Hockey League play.
The Wranglers lost the game 3-2 in a shootout to the Alaska Aces in league play on Jan. 17.
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Burnaby’s Ilaina Hecimovic is currently second in average digs per game for Douglas College in PacWest conference women’s volleyball. Hecimovic has recorded 265 digs in 51 sets so far this season.
Douglas teammate Kalena Connors of Burnaby is 11th overall in service aces with 19, while Burnaby’s Alicia Catalona, who places for Capilano University, is fourth in blocks with 39 in 46 sets.
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Burnaby’s Dustin Mowrey, a senior forward on Cornell University’s varsity men’s hockey team, scored the game-winning goal for the No. 12-ranked NCAA Division I team in a 3-2 victory over Ivy League rival Harvard on Jan. 17.
Later, Mowrey also scored Cornell’s only goal in a 1-1 draw with Dartmouth with his fifth tally this season less than five minutes into the game on Saturday.
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Burnaby brothers, Tyler and Brandon Morley, both scored goals to lead the University of Alaska Fairbanks to a come-from-behind 4-3 victory over Northern Michigan in NCAA Division I hockey.
Sophomore Tyler Morley tied the game 2-2, scoring two goals three minutes apart in the middle period.
In the third period, redshirt junior Jared Larson and freshman Brandon Morley, with the eventual game-winning goal off an intercepted turnover, scored 20 seconds apart to give the Nanooks a 4-2 lead in Western Collegiate Hockey Association league play.
