Local Sports

The Burnaby Lakers are off to a fast start in the West Coast Junior Lacrosse League. The junior B Lakers upset last year's playoff semifinalist Richmond Roadrunners 11-6 at Minoru Arena last Friday.

The Burnaby NOW had some inaccurate information in its May 10 story (Braves showing they belong with the big bats).

Stefan Milosevic led a Hyack Swim Club wave of record-setting efforts at the 39th annual Hyack Festival Youth Cup last weekend.

Burnaby's Briannah Tsang posted B.C.'s best all-around score at the senior national women's artistic gymnastics championships in Ottawa. The Burnaby North gymnast placed 11th in the all-around with a total score of 50.

Have you noticed more exercisers just "hanging around" the gym lately? They might have been utilizing one of the great fitness innovations of the past ten years: TRX cables! Very much a back-to-basics approach, TRX is primarily a strengthening tool a

Burnaby's Remo Ruscitti made the podium at the Pirelli World Challenge Touring Car championships at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.

Burnaby figure skaters took home two of the three youth promise awards at the recent 28th annual B.C. section awards dinner at Delta Burnaby Hotel.

Simon Fraser University middle distance runner Helen Crofts was named the West region female track athlete of the year by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.

A combined New Westminster/Burnaby girls' team won the provincial zone u-15 basketball title at the Langley Events Centre on Sunday.

In the pink: Jen Bodner, in pink, helped the Burnaby Zoo down Panthers 5-0 in the social division at the Vancouver International field hockey tournament at Burnaby Lake-West on Sunday.