Local Sports

Being there for each other took on a whole new meaning for local high school instructors Chad and Jennifer Oatway.

Three Vancouver Cannons, pitchers Connor Noble and Brandon Marklund and catcher Nick Favaro from Burnaby, were invited to the B.C. Selects baseball camp to be held July 9 to 13.

Don't miss the best of the upcoming crop of graduating novice lacrosse players at this year's annual Jack Crosby All-Star novice lacrosse tournament at the Bill Copeland Sports Centre complex this week.

The Simon Fraser University Men's Ice Hockey program received a commitment from winger Jesse Mysiorek to attend the school and join the team for the 2012/13 British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League season.

Michael Valiante is showing the heart that the HART Continental Tire sports car racing team hoped he would. Valiante drove the Honda of America Racing Team No.

He was the last standing man of a cadre of dedicated and hard-working devotees of cricket, whose relentless and indomitable spirit is unparalleled.

Eight members of the Burnaby Lake Rugby Club were named to the travelling roster for the B.C. senior women's provincial rugby team.

National champion wrestler Parm Dhesi and five-time girls' winner Kelsi Boroevich were named Burnaby Central's Grade 12 athletes of the year.

Top-seed Monica Neveklovska of West Vancouver rolled to her third consecutive Burnaby Open title on Canada Day. Neveklovska added the 2012 women's open singles crown to the championships she won in 2010 and 2011 at the Burnaby Tennis Club.