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The Burnaby Girls Strikers will be going to the provincials despite a semifinal loss in Coastal Cup playdowns a week earlier.

Columbus will get another crack at the premier women's juggernaut - Surrey United. The Burnaby-based Columbus club advanced to the championship final of the B.C.

Simon Fraser University's Lindsey Butterworth won her section of the women's 800 metres at an invitational NCAA track and field meet hosted by Stanford University on Tuesday.

Cup final: South Burnaby Vipers Caleb Ogden, in white, will help lead the club to the under-15 boys' Coastal B Cup final against Central City at Minoru Park in Richmond this Saturday at 3:15 p.m.

Drawn and quartered: The Burnaby Lake men's third division rugby team lost its quarter-final match to Brit-Lions 28-22 at home last week.

Four soccer players, including two each from both Simon Fraser University and Douglas College were named to the Vancouver Whitecaps premier development league team. Returning to the club is former residency player Douglas defender Bobby Jhutty.

Zion Corrales-Nelson was a big winner for the Burnaby Striders at the recent Fraser Valley high school invitational track and field meet.

Five Burnaby Winter Club Bruins were snapped up with the top-23 picks in the Western Hockey League draft.

Simon Fraser University finished second overall in women's softball this season. The second-year NCAA Division II Clan split its final Great Northwest conference regular-season games to finish behind first-place Montana State on Saturday.

The Burnaby Lakers are hoping to build a winner from the goal on out. The Lakers made a reasonably good start in that direction despite a 7-2 loss to the Delta Islanders in the junior A club's B.C. lacrosse league home opener on Sunday.