Local Sports

Fresh off a busy summer camp schedule, the Burnaby-based Balloholics youth basketball program is gearing up for a new fall season of hoop games and experiences for local girls and boys.

You just never know. That could be the Western Lacrosse Association’s new slogan, applying to how assumptions and trends are turned on their head in a heart’s beat in the senior A boxla circuit.

As tough decisions go, this one looked harder than it was.

Sisters were doing it for themselves and their zone last month at the B.C. Summer Games in Abbotsford. Burnaby siblings Georgia and Ula Langdon combined for six gold and six silver in the paddling sports of kayaking and canoeing.

While the PNE Playland’s tallest attractions loom noisily along the outfield skyline of Hastings Community Park, none of those rides could match the thrills dished out by the Hastings Major All-Stars this week.

Nothing like a dose of urgency to bring life to a dire situation. The Burnaby Lakers staved off elimination on Sunday with a 10-8 victory over the Victoria Shamrocks in their Western Lacrosse Association best-of-seven semifinal.

The Burnaby Braves pushed it right to the end, finished second at the bantam A baseball provincials after falling 8-7 to Port Coquitlam in the final.

Kaleigh Fratkin is learning about the business of hockey, and loving it.

This story, admittedly, has a few holes. Like, who won Thursday's rematch where the Burnaby Lakers gave their response after falling 9-6 in Game 1 to the Victoria Shamrocks.

Simon Fraser University gym is playing host to an international congregation of basketball teams as part of the first-ever HaiCo World Indigenous Basketball Challenge, which started Wednesday and runs until Saturday.