Local Sports

The South Burnaby Lawn Bowls Club officially opened the 2012 bowling season on Saturday, April 28 at the club's Central Park location. This is the 97th year of continuous operation of lawn bowling in Burnaby for the club.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins of Burnaby will be the youngest player on Canada's world championship national hockey team. The 19-year-old NHL Edmonton Oilers' rookie of the year hopeful is one of five B.C. players named to the national team.

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.

Track and field - the marquee coed sports event on the B.C. high school calender may be cancelled because of ongoing teacher job action in response to recent B.C. government legislation. B.C.

Shutout soccer: Caleb Ogden, in white, scored the game-winning goal for the South Burnaby Metro Club Vipers in a 3-0 win over Prospect Lake in under-15 boys' Coastal B Cup semifinals at Burnaby Lake-West last weekend.

Experience prevailed over youth as Columbus FC got by the University of British Columbia in B.C. Soccer provincial women's A Cup playdowns last weekend.

Simon Fraser University forward Carlo Basso will join the Ottawa Fury's Premier developmental men's soccer league team for the summer season.

It could be hard to envision a different outcome from last season to this in the B.C. Junior A Lacrosse League.