Local Sports

Burnaby's Jeff Taylor is one of Canada's heavy college hitters. The fifth-year outside hitter for the Douglas College Royals was ranked in seventh place in Canadian Colleges' top 10 in overall kills in men's volleball last week.

What's in a name? Well, quite a lot if you happen to belong to the Burnaby Minor Hockey Association. After 47 years without a formal moniker, the well-respected Lower Mainland amateur sports body is searching for an appropriate identity.

he Byrne Creek Bulldogs made doubly sure no upsets would occur on its home floor.

Burnaby international Christine Sinclair led the Canadian national women's soccer team to a berth at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London.

Two Burnaby figure skaters were given international assignments by Skate Canada following the national figure skating championships. Nineteen-year-old Nicole Orford of Burnaby and partner Thomas Williams, 20, of Okotoks, Alta.

Any way you slice it, the Burnaby Lakers are going to come away a winner at the Western Lacrosse Association annual junior entry draft on Feb. 6.

The New Westminster Hyacks did the not-so unexpected in BNW high school boys' basketball. The unranked Hyacks knocked off the No. 8-ranked Burnaby South Rebels 57-50 at South on Monday.

PAC coast peewee A1 hockey with BWC

Tickets for the Feb. 16 Burnaby Sports Hall of Fame Induction dinner are selling fast.