Local Sports

Burnaby was named the first-ever host city from B.C. for the fifth annual Esso Cup national female ice hockey championships. Hockey Canada, in partnership with B.C. Hockey and the B.C.

Steelers' hockey: The Burnaby-based Grandview Steelers finished up their main hockey camp at the Burnaby Winter Club with a lively inter-squad game. The Steelers' first exhibition game is tonight at Planet Ice versus the Ridge Meadow Flames.

Katrina Heinonen was the toast of the B.C. Summer Swimming Association provincial championships in Nanaimo. The Division 6 Burnaby Barracudas swimmer won four individual medals and set three provincial pool records at the Nanaimo Aquatic Centre Aug.

The Premier Baseball League Vancouver Cannons midget baseball team will open its fall school on Tuesday, Aug. 28.

Simon Fraser University's Kay Sze is eager to make her point. And not just with the tip of her sword, either.

Two St. Thomas More Collegiate students battled it out in the final of the 58th Pacific Northwest junior boys' amateur golf championships earlier this month.

Raquel Tjernagel of New Westminster brought home two track medals from the 2012 Canadian Youth Legion track and field championships in Charlottetown, P.E.I. this weekend. Tjernagel won her first of two silver medals for Team B.C.

The B.C. Seniors Games kick off today and run through to Saturday at a variety of venues in Burnaby. The opening ceremonies will take place at Swangard Stadium on Wednesday at 7 p.m. The closing ceremony will be held at the Michael J.