Local Sports

Sports fans like to focus on statistics, but for Burnaby’s Ty Ronning, despite smashing the Vancouver Giants’ all-time goals-per-season record this spring, it was about playing game by game and pushing for playoffs.

There’s no better reminder that last year’s in the past than a virtual slap in the face.

Burnaby district athletes pick up berths for next week's provincial track and field championships

Prior to launching the 2018 WLA season, Burnaby waits for all the pieces to come together to defend the franchise's first-ever league championship

It’s been a decade in the rough for many B.C. golf courses, but hopes are high for the upcoming summer season.

Burnaby native Nicco Camazzola was among 60 players selected to attend the under-16 provincial male hockey camp by B.C. Hockey. Camazzola, a 6-foot-1 defenceman from the Burnaby Winter Club Academy, was selected after participating in the U16 B.C.

Next week Simon Fraser University will have a healthy contingent of athletes trying to escape Charlotte’s web with a medal. Eight members of the SFU track and field team qualified for the NCAA Div.

It was a showcase and a tune-up. It proved to be a success on both fronts.

Symetry isn’t always harmonious. For the Burnaby junior Lakers, symetry was evident in both the good and bad of the past week’s action. Although they fell 9-5 to the defending B.C.

The Western Lacrosse Association takes its players’ safety serious. The league is showing that they intend to be as good as their word with the recent announcement that they are partnering with the B.C.