Local Sports

Burnaby's Christine Sinclair scored two goals in the second half to lead Canada's women's soccer team to a must-win 3-0 victory over South Africa in Olympic group play on Saturday.

Burnaby ice dancers came away with podium finishes at the Lake Placid figure skating championships last week.

Bryan Yu led the Burnaby Mountain Mantas with four gold medals as the North Burnaby swim club put in final preparations for the Simon Fraser regional championships to be held in Burnaby this weekend.

Five Burnaby baseball players provided much of the clout for the Hastings All-Stars at the B.C. Little League provincial championships in Trail on Saturday.

The Burnaby Lakers did what they had to do, now their Western Lacrosse Association playoff fate rests in the hands of two other teams.

Oz boyz: A Bayhawks ballcarrier makes a break against the Burnaby Eagles in Australian Rules Football at Burnaby Lake last Saturday.

Two Burnaby ice hockey players will be vying for positions on Canada's junior women's national teams. Kaleigh Fratkin, a defender on the University of Boston varsity women's team, is the sole B.C.

Nigel Press, a 36-year old Canadian Red Cross worker in Burnaby, won the Rocky Mountain 1,200kilometre timed bike race, finishing far ahead of the 112-rider field in Kamloops on Wednesday. The B.C.

Stefan Milosevic of Burnaby will represent Canada for the first time following a strong showing at the Canadian summer nationals senior swim meet in Edmonton.