Local Sports

St. Thomas More Collegiate student Kevin Vigna captured the third stop on the Canadian Junior Golf Association tour last week.

Dan Taylor of Burnaby was honoured with a president's award at the recent Sports B.C. athlete of the year awards dinner.

The Burnaby Winter Club will be vying for a Western Canadian bantam AAA double following a 6-5 victory over the Cloverdale Colts in the final at the B.C. Tier 1 provincial championships in Kamloops on Thursday.

Herb Phillips placed first in the 70-and-over age division at the St. Patricks Day five-kilometre run in Vancouver March 17. Phillips clocked a winning time of 20: 12.92.

Canada's junior national field hockey team was near perfect on a two-week nine-game tour in Chile. The junior nats, including Ali Currimbhoy, Gabriel Ho-Garcia and C.J.

Burnaby Lake Rugby Club's Julia Sugawara tops the Women's Adidas premiership scoring. Sugawara currently has a 10-point lead on Velox's Jesse Olynyk with five tries, three penalty kicks and 13 conversions.

Herb Phillips placed first in the 70and-over age division at the St. Patrick's Day five-kilometre run in Vancouver on March 17. Phillips clocked a winning time of 20: 12.92.

A fifth-year volleyball player and the first-ever four-time national badminton player of the year were named Douglas College's top athletes for 2012.

Burnaby international soccer star Christine Sinclair led Canada's national women's team to a 2-1 win over Brazil last week. Sinclair tallied in the 12th and 78th minutes to give Canada a 2-0 advantage.