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The Simon Fraser University men's basketball team staged a last-minute comeback to post its first Great Northwest conference win of the season.

National medallist Saheel Khan won both of his bouts at 107 kilograms in two separate wrestling dual meets with visiting provincial teams last week.

The Trinity Western women's soccer team signed a major piece of its defensive future Tuesday as coach Graham Roxburgh announced that Burnaby defender Lindsey Pulice will join the Spartans in the fall of 2012.

Former Northwest Giants major midget hockey players, Griffin Reinhart, Dalton Thrower and Alex Kerfoot, were among the top 81 North American players listed in NHL midterm rankings.

The Grandview Steelers moved a point out of the Pacific International Junior Hockey League divisional cellar with a couple of wins last week.

It was back to work for the B.C. Hockey Northwest Giants major midget hockey team.

The Simon Fraser University women's basketball team split its West Coast weekend road trip. The Clan opened with a 66-53 victory over Western Oregon last Thursday but lost its Saturday matchup in Lacey, Washington 6457 to the Saint Martin's Saints.

Mountain FC won a bronze medal in the boys' under-16 division at the B.C. Soccer provincial futsal championships at the Richmond Olympic Oval. Fusion FC, a collaboration between Vancouver FC and the Richmond Soccer Association, won three separate B.