Local Sports

Chile hot: Chile EDC FC from Burnaby, in white, defeated Richmond United's under-16 Metro soccer team in the Renegade Cup tournament final last weekend.

The Alpha Aztecs finished up their first-ever appearance at the B.C. high school AA rugby championships with an 8-0 victory over Vernon in Abbotsford last Saturday. With the win, the North Burnaby school placed 13th overall in its provincial debut.

The Hockey Now selected Burnaby Winter Club bantam Mathew Barzal and Northwest Giants callup Jansen Harkins from the North Shore Winter Club as the publication's co-winners of the 2012 Hockey Now Minor Hockey Player of the Year award on Tuesday.

Ali Currimbhoy and Gabriel Ho-Garcia of Burnaby will lead the Canadian junior men's national field hockey team in a three-game series against the Mexican junior national team from June 14 to 17.

The Burnaby Lakers went into a New Jersey Devils-like funk in their mid-week Western Lacrosse Association match against the Langley Thunder.

The Harry Jerome International Track Classic kicks off Sunday at Swangard Stadium. The meet gets underway at noon with elementary school 4x100 metre relay teams and finishes up with Olympian Perdita Felicien in the invitational women's 100m hurdles.

St. Thomas More Collegiate appears to be in it for the long haul. The Burnaby independent school scored three first-place medals and a pair of bronze in the under-15 portion of the 46th annual B.C.

Spectators to the B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey League will witness some new changes for overtime and playoffs in the upcoming season.

Andrew Morris of Burnaby committed to the Simon Fraser University men's basketball team this week. Morris stands 6-5 and played high school basketball with St. Thomas More Collegiate.