Local Sports

The Alpha Aztecs played one of their best games ever to reach the provincial AA high school rugby championships for the first time.

Michael Busto of Burnaby registered an assist for the Las Vegas Wranglers in a 7-2 loss to the Florida Everblades in Game 2 of the best-of-seven East Coast Hockey League championship playoff final on May 15.

It took more than a little bit of sibling rivalry to get Milan Gajic back on the lacrosse floor.

The Simon Fraser University men's soccer team will look to defend their back-to-back Great Northwest Athletic Conference titles in 2012, playing a schedule that includes several matches against teams that were ranked in the regional top-10 polls duri

The Vancouver Giants announced the signing of Ty Ronning and Jesse Roach to Western Hockey League player agreements on Monday.

Burnaby's Alan Tolusso won his second Zone 4 junior golf tournament, firing a two-under-par 70 at the Squamish Valley club on May 13.

Burnaby javelin thrower Curtis Moss won an International Amateur Athletics Federation Grand Prix track-and-field event in Ponce, Puerto Rico last weekend.

The Burnaby Lakers held their own against the vaunted Coquitlam junior Adanacs. In the end, the junior A Lakers were outgunned 15-10 in the midweek B.C.

The St. Thomas More Knights won a thrilling overtime matchup against Seycove, and its ninth straight appearance at the B.C. high school AA girls' soccer championships.

Three of the Vancouver Whitecaps FC newest residency players want to bring the Danone Cup back out west. Burnaby's Filip Rakic and Alessandro Hojabrpour, and Niko Papakyriakopoulos of New Westminster are three young Whitecaps named to the B.C.