Local Sports

Simon Fraser University made program and NCAA history, marching into the semifinals of the Division II national men's soccer championships in its first year of eligibility.

March: Michelle Toor scored a goal to help the Fraser Valley Phantom with the Pacific region AAA midget girls hockey final. SFU's Cara Lukawesky threw her career-first no-hit softball game in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference.

The Burnaby Winter Club scored a Western Canadian bantam AAA double, winning the region title following a 3-0 victory over Alberta champion South Side Athletic Club in April.

The Moscrop Panthers became the first Burnaby school to make it to the final four at the B.C. high school AAA boys' volleyball championships.

South Rebels drop opening game at the Rod Thomson high school boys' basketball tournament to Delta

JANUARY: Burnaby Minor made it to the quarter-finals of its own AAA bantam hockey tournament for the first time in more than a decade. St.

The Lower Mainland Thunder went from an expansion National Ringette League club to national champions in April, making it the Burnaby NOW's sports story of the year.

The Grandview Steelers were batting 0.500 at the halfway mark of the Pacific Junior Hockey League.

Burnaby's popular elite four-day cycling event at the velodrome on Barnet Highway is back again to welcome in the new year.

Ring leader: Seven-year-old Saralynn Lai takes the ring to the net for the Burnaby/New Westminster under-10 ringette team against North/West Vancouver at Burnaby Lake Arena last Saturday.