Local Sports

Burnaby's Lindsey Bott helped her North Vancouver's 3D Elite under-13 girls' basketball team win the elementary school division title at the Telus Basketball Classic on Dec. 10, at UBC's War Memorial Gym.

Jordan Or of Burnaby heads a dominant showing by Douglas College on the current PacWest sports leaderboard. The second-year Royals libero boasts an overwhelming lead with 143 digs at the halfway mark of the men's collegiate volleyball season.

The Wesburn Coyotes moved into the final of the 4District Burrard Cup following a recent 5-1 victory over the West Vancouver Jets. Team captain Jordan Pink scored four goals for the under-18 Wesburn soccer team in the cup semifinal.

Four athletes, two builders, one coach and one team are the latest group to be inducted into the Burnaby Sports Hall of Fame. The Induction dinner will take place Thursday, Feb. 16, at the Burnaby Firefighter's Club Metrotown.

Burnaby's Riley Loewen and former Burnaby junior Jackson Decker were both named pre-season NCAA Division II first team All-Americans on Dec. 9.

The Simon Fraser University hockey team will be playing an exhibition charity game against the Burnaby firefighters at the Bill Copeland Sports Centre on Saturday, Dec. 17.

Burnaby's Nelson Elementary School won the triple crown of volleyball this year. On Dec.

Burnaby's Lucas Gatto finished third in the recent Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour's national championship in Orlando, Florida. Gatto, 17, shared the first-round lead of 74 with eventual runner-up Matthew Chiasson of Cambridge, Ont.

Burnaby/New Westminster brought home a championship banner from the Fraser Valley association's Spirit of Winter ringette tournament last week.