Local Sports

St. Thomas More Knights may have lost a battle, but not the war. The Burnaby independent school lived to fight another day despite dropping the Lower Mainland AA high school boys' basketball final 67-55 to the host King George Dragons on Thursday.

Burnaby was arguably the top zone at the B.C. high school wrestling championships in Penticton this weekend. Burnaby Central finished second in the aggregate boys' and St. Thomas More girls' placed third overall at the three-day competition.

Six local field hockey players were selected to the Canadian men's junior national team for an upcoming international tour to Santiago, Chile from March 10 to 26. Joining the 21-player team are Ali Currimbhoy, Gabriel Ho-Garcia and C.J.

Louisa Tsang of Burnaby was a big winner in biathlon at the B.C. Winter Games in Vernon last weekend. Tsang won the senior girls' indvidual event, while placing runner-up in both the sprint and super sprint.

Simon Fraser University softball player Kelsey Haberl of Burnaby was named the Great Northwest Athletic Conference player of the week.

The Burnaby South Rebels won both the junior and juvenile boys' basketball titles at the Vancouver and District high school championships last week. The junior Rebels defeated New Westminster 48-42 in an all-district championship final.

Simon Fraser University men's basketball guard Justin Brown was named to the 2011-12 Great Northwest Athletic Conference second team, becoming the first SFU player to be named to an NCAA all-conference team.

The Simon Fraser University qualified its entire men's wrestling team at the National Collegiate association West Regional championships on Saturday at San Jose State University.

Two Burnaby schools will be under the gun when Lower Mainland high school AAA boys' basketball resumes on Tuesday.