Local Sports

There was plenty of action and encouragement as Simon Fraser University and the Native Education College hosted the NEC-SFU Native Basketball festival last weekend.

Dan Olson [email protected] A couple of key strides proved to be the separation between first and second among the boys teams at the Burnaby-New West-Richmond track and field zone meet last week. By a margin of nine points over R.A.

For a second time this month, the Burnaby Braves proved to be the best team on the diamond. The peewee AA baseball team picked up its second tournament title in May, edging past the Tri-Cities Reds 2-1 at the Jevon Clarke tourney in Coquitlam.

The weekend wasn’t kind to the Burnaby Lakers. The B.C. Junior A Lacrosse League squad suffered back-to-back setbacks and fell to sixth place in the standings.

Team B.C. used its home oval advantage on the weekend to roll to the first Australian Football League Canadian national championships, held in Burnaby. B.C.

Nearly two years younger than the next youngest teammate, midfielder Julia Grosso enters this week’s closed-door matches against Mexico already steeped in the rituals and responsibilities of representing Canada.

Canada’s secret passion for Australian rules football is going public. The game popular Down-under is a growing sport in this land of hockey and lacrosse, with Burnaby hosting the first-ever Canadian national championships this weekend.

The high school district netball championships took over Burnaby Mountain gymnasium on Saturday, as senior and junior squads battled for local bragging rights. Moscrop ended up first among senior teams, ahead of Burnaby South and Burnaby Mountain.

It wasn’t a masterpiece, but the Burnaby Lakers will gladly hang on to the two points earned Tuesday in the Western Lacrosse Association’s season opener.

The Champs International Skating Centre is home to some world-class figure skaters already, including Olympic medallist Kevin Reynolds. Add three-time world champion and two-time Olympic silver medallist Patrick Chan to the list.