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Hockey Now announced today that Burnaby Winter Club bantam Mathew Barzal and Jansen Harkins from the North Shore Winter Club are the co-winners of the 2012 Hockey Now Minor Hockey Player of the Year award. The honour is handed out annually to a B.C.

St. Thomas More finished in fourth place at the B.C. high school AA girls' soccer championships for a second straight year. "I think we're a little bit disappointed.

Burnaby South junior Ahmad Nizamani took home a bronze medal in the long jump from the B.C. high school track and field championships. The Grade 10 Rebel, the under-16 Canadian national champion in the field event, leaped 6.

The Simon Fraser University women's basketball team received a commitment from Michelle Spacek from Riverside Secondary School to join the Clan this fall.

The Burnaby Lakers rode a perfect period of lacrosse to their third consecutive win in the Western Lacrosse Association.

St. Thomas More's Kevin Vigna finished a stroke behind the leaders with a one-over-par 72 at the Zone 4 junior golf invitational at Mayfair Lakes on Saturday.

Ryan Watson scored a hat trick and Josh Simons potted a pair of goals, but there was little else to cheer about at Burnaby's junior A lacrosse game. The Burnaby Lakers slipped closer to the bottom of the B.C.

The Simon Fraser University women's soccer team added five players to its roster this fall. With no returning seniors to the varsity squad, the Clan added two premier league players in Amanda Gilliland and Shivani Sami of Burnaby.

Simon Fraser University men's soccer head coach Alan Koch announced two new additions to the coaching staff for the 2012 season. James Merriman of Nanaimo and Nour Fathy of Burnaby will join the Clan this fall.

Hockey Now announced today that Burnaby Winter Club bantam Mathew Barzal and Jansen Harkins from the North Shore Winter Club are the co-winners of the 2012 Hockey Now Minor Hockey Player of the Year award. The honour is handed out annually to a B.C.