Local Sports

At least one local men’s hockey team has playoffs in its future. The Simon Fraser University men’s hockey team closes out the B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey League’s regular season this weekend looking to clinch a league title.

The names Malcolm Huemmert and Matteo Paler-Chow are getting a lot of play these days.

It was the mirror-opposite of what many had witnessed during their earlier games at the Lower Mainland 3-A senior boys basketball tournament, but the St. Thomas More Knights will take it. Up was down, dry was wet, Moonlight was La-la Land.

There is no denying the Byrne Creek Bulldogs have packed a lot of experience into the past three months, all in pursuit of a dream.

Liam Cumberbirch potted a goal with one second remaining in the first overtime session to give the Grandview Steelers a 3-2 victory over the Richmond Sockeyes on Wednesday at the Burnaby Winter Club.

Sara Brinkac enters this weekend’s provincial high school wrestling championship tournament in Salmon Arm with momentum and a title.

What had been their biggest target heading into the 2016-17 senior boys 3-A basketball season is now accomplished, so the Byrne Creek Bulldogs are eager to turn their focus onto the next challenge.

The excitement is real. Six-year-old Isabelle had given a presentation to her class on the topic, and relaying it to a reporter once again brought out the joy she feels when she’s playing hockey.

The field got a lot less crowded last week as teams fought through the senior boys Lower Mainland basketball minefield in search of a berth to next month’s B.C. high school senior boys basketball championships in Langley.

Behind the performances of Vladislav Tsygankov and Nathan Mah, the Simon Fraser University track and field team climbed the charts at the 2017 Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) Indoor track and field championships in Nampa, Idaho last week.