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The defending five time B.C. major midget hockey league champion Northwest Giants are looking to make it six in a row.

Orange crush: The Royal City Hyacks atom orange team, in orange, defeated the Burnaby Lions 19-0 at Mercer Stadium on Sunday.

Simon Fraser University sent Pacific University a message in its varsity football season opener. The Clan opened the 2012 season with a rollicking 51-14 victory over the NCAA Division III school in Forest Grove, Oregon on Aug. 30.

Simon Fraser University freshman Mariya Chekanovych earned a couple of second-place finishes in women's 100 and 200m breaststroke at the Junior Pan Pacific swim championships in Hawaii last week.

Off to the finals: The Vancouver Cougars, in red and blue, defeated the Delta Bayhawks in a B.C. Australian Rules Football semifinal at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex-East last Saturday.

Burnaby's James MacGowan won the Canadian Pro Bowlers Association world indoor singles qualifier in Toronto earlier this month. The win qualifies MacGowan for the world indoor bowls championships in England in January.

Calgary Stampeders running back Jon Cornish was named Canadian player of the month in the CFL. During the month of August, Cornish, a former St. Thomas More Collegiate provincial player of the year, rushed for 372 yards in three games, averaging 6.

A lot has been accomplished in the first 10 years of the reinvigorated New Westminster Hyacks high school football program. But there is still a lot more to come.

Passing fancy: A pair of runners prepare to pass the baton in the medley relay race on the final day of the B.C. Seniors Games at Swangard Stadium on Saturday.

Burnaby athletes raked in 65 medals in badminton and track and field alone at the B.C. Seniors Games last week.