Local Sports

A big festival of competition, camaraderie and celebration of sports will bring 244 members of Team B.C. to Antigonish, N.S., for the 2018 Special Olympics Canada Summer Games.

It was a breakthrough victory for a perennial contender at the 39th annual Nations Cup.

The past few seasons the Burnaby Lakers’ fate rested a lot on the final game of the season. Last year, they clinched the organization’s first Western Lacrosse Association league title. Two years ago, it was whether they’d be third or fourth.

As a teenage player, Joseph Santalucia understands that hockey is more than a fun game. The ice may be almost the same at every stop, and the boards as unforgiving in each rink, but the game remains a powerful draw.

The Fraser River Zone 4 foursome proved to be dynamos on the track last week. The relay team of Burnaby’s Taya Batiste and Surrey’s Estella Mainella, Charity Obazughanwen and Laysha Tunti crossed the finish line in a time of 49.

Team B.C. has one goal in mind – gold. The girls midget program is looking to keep the good times going and repeat as Canadian national box lacrosse champions in the tournament that kicks off next week in Halifax.

Opportunity was all about timing when the Vancouver Whitecaps unveiled current MSL standout Alphonso Davies. His talent proved the rest.

Combine 15 teenage boys, a soccer ball and a goal. If that goal includes fun, other objectives will follow.

There’s no way to sugar-coat it – the Burnaby Lakers are staring at a difficult climb.

Max Mazziotti, Shiloh Corrales-Nelson and Ava Jackson delivered some well-deserved hardware for the Burnaby Striders track and field club last week.