Local Sports

The Burnaby Karate Academy won seven gold medals at the recent national championships held in Toronto March 15 to 17.

Burnaby South Rebels Dejan Posavljak was the top shooter among starting players at the recent B.C. high school AAA boys' basketball championships in Langley. The 6-6 Posavljak registered a 74.

The Burnaby Winter Club won't get a chance at a Western Canadian bantam AAA three-peat. The Pacific Coast bantam A1 runner-up was nipped in the B.C.

Simon Fraser University senior Nayo Raincock-Ekunwe was named a second team All-American in women's basketball on March 22.

Burnaby's Luke Lockhart scored the game-tying goal, and later the overtime winner, for the Seattle Thunderbirds in a 5-4 victory over the Kelowna Rockets in a first round Western Hockey League playoff game on March 22.

Burnaby defender Kaleigh Fratkin helped Boston University reach an NCAA Division I title game for just the second time in the women's hockey program history.

Carlo Finucci was named a third star following a goal and one assist for the Las Vegas Wranglers in a 4-1 win over the Bakersfield Condors in East Coast Hockey League action on March 22.

Second place: The Burnaby Winter Club bantam A1 team, seen in an earlier season game, came away with the silver medal at the B.C. provincials.

Two-time world cycling omnium runner-up Zach Bell sprinted to his first win in five years, winning the fourth stage of the Tour de Taiwan.

Getting themselves to a fifth consecutive B.C. major midget hockey final was a difficult road for the Northwest Giants.