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Head coach Pat Fleck will field a mostly Burnaby lineup in the upcoming National Womens League rugby finals. Team B.C.

The Burnaby Winter Club hired Aaron Wilber as head coach of the new Hockey Academy prep team for 2013. Wilber joins Leland Mack at the academy, who was earlier named as the head coach of the elite 15s division.

The Simon Fraser University women's soccer team will play a 14-game schedule in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference this season. The Clan women will also play a two-game, non-conference schedule that will take the team to California.

Simon Fraser University men's soccer released its 2013 Great Northwest Athletic Conference schedule. In addition to the 14-game conference schedule, the Clan will play four non-conference games - two in California and two at home on Terry Fox Field.

At the plate: Burnaby Minor Brewers Nabil Verasia takes a swing at a pitch in a recent peewee A baseball game against the Red Sox at Harwood Park.

One game can change the direction of an entire season. That's what the Burnaby Lakers' 9-8 upset over the defending Western Lacrosse Association champion Langley Thunder on Wednesday could mean to the summer season.

Kimberly Newell of Burnaby is the youngest player invited to the under-22 national women's hockey program goaltending camp in Calgary this weekend.

Alex Françis of Burnaby is the toast of the Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club.