Local Sports

Burnaby Lake will be hosting its annual Lighthouse rugby 7s tournament this Saturday at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex-East. Burnaby Lake elite men's and women's teams currently both lead their respective divisional B.C. Sevens Series standings.

Kevin Crowley and Jordan McBride both made Inside Lacrosse Magazine's top 20 list of rookies in Major League Lacrosse this season. Crowley, the No. 1 player taken in the collegiate entry draft by Hamilton, was pegged at No. 7.

Hastings lost the B.C. Little League baseball championship 6-2 to Langley on July 31.

Nine-year-old Laura Boddington of Burnaby placed third in the girls' division on the second stop of the Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour's mini tour at Richmond's Mylora Golf Course Friday.

It isn't every day that a coach would be happy with a fourth-place finish. But that's how Burnaby Lakers midget coach Tony Spagnuolo felt after his team's 6-5 loss to Coquitlam in the B.C. Lacrosse A1 provincial bronze medal final last Sunday.

This season's Western Lacrosse Association rookie of the year race could be one of the most intriguing in a long time. The Burnaby Lakers, which held three of the this season's first-round draft picks, are holding a clutch of possible contenders.

What a difference one year can make. Last season, Burnaby's Xenia Dumont wasn't really sure if she was good enough to play for Team B.C.'s bantam girls' lacrosse team. Fast forward one year and the 14-year-old St.

The Burnaby Braves AAA mosquito baseball teams will open the B.C. Baseball Tier 2 provincial championships on Friday morning against the Mission Twins at Kensington Park ball diamond #4.

Bantam runner Marcus Vela and peewee Sekanwnee Baker, both from the Burnaby minor lacrosse association, will be representing their respective division teams at the Commissioners national championships held in Whitby, Ont., beginning July 31.