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For one more meet, three members of the Corbett family will stand together and wear their St. Thomas More colours with pride – and two of them will step onto the mat to compete.

For the final shot on her home court, senior Alisha Roberts delivered two strikes to lead her Simon Fraser University women’s basketball team to victory.

Burnaby Central’s Sara Brinkac and Ansel Hait are targeting a breakthrough at this weekend’s B.C. High School Wrestling championships in Abbotsford.

He may not have the biggest name heading into the Burnaby Sports Hall of Fame this week, but Dave Evans will likely have the most engaging induction speech.

Brandon Volpe scored twice, including the game winning goal with 8:06 left in the third period, to lift the Grandview Steelers past the Richmond Sockeyes 3-2 on Wednesday.

She’s on the long-list for Canada’s upcoming women’s international test season. She’s also booked for a Las Vegas Invitational tournament for B.C.’s Sevens rugby team, which will hit the city of casinos March 3 to 5.

Both the Byrne Creek Bulldogs and St. Thomas More Knights are one-win away from clinching a berth to the B.C. AAA senior boys championships. And the only one standing in their way is each other.

The Burnaby Central Wildcats showed the required ‘bounce-back’ and kept their senior girls AAA provincial hopes alive, thanks to a 58-46 triumph over Kitsilano on Tuesday.

Entering the final minute of play in Wednesday’s playoff tilt, the Grandview Steelers knew they just had to hang on and get it to overtime.

The Burnaby Lake Rugby Club’s men’s premier side played the UBC Thunderbirds to a 7-7 standstill in the first half, but couldn’t contain them completely over the final yards in a spring league game won 10-7 by the Point Grey gang.