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St. Thomas More grads pick up sticks and boost New West in playoffs

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In what was a meteoric rise and a franchise-first Western Lacrosse Association regular season title, the Burnaby Lakers could call 2017 as a breakthrough season.

For Burnaby’s Briannah Tsang, the Summer Universiade Games were an important piece to what is likely her swan song season in artistic gymnastics.

It proved to be a bull market for the B.C. Bears. The men’s rugby team captured the 2017 Canadian Rugby championship by dethroning Ontario 30-29 in a thrilling tourney final played in Calgary last week.

Last year’s solid showing has given way to a lot of promise heading into the 2017 women’s soccer season for the Simon Fraser University Clan.

A pair of Burnaby Lake rowers will be taking their oars to Florida as members of the Canadian rowing team to compete next month at the World Rowing championships.

The new voice of the Vancouver Canucks has been doing hockey play-by-play for 24 years. Not so surprising until you learn that Brendan Batchelor is only 28 years old.

Youth and speed are always in demand in junior hockey circles. The Grandview Steelers feel they’ve got a good dose of both exiting the first stage of training camp, building towards the Sept. 6 Pacific Junior B Hockey League season opener.

Burnaby’s Andy Luo was as hot as the weather last week in capturing the bantam boys title at the Maple Junior Tour’s 12th annual Odlum Brown Classic-PGA of B.C. Junior Championship in Surrey.