Local Sports

Burnaby Minor Baseball will be hosting both the AAA mosquito and single A peewee provincial championships on back-to-back weekends at Kensington Park.

The Burnaby Lake Rugby Club had great weekend at the Simon Fraser University 7s tournament last Saturday. The women's elite team won its third consecutive seven-a-side tournament in B.C. Rugby's summer series, beating Velox in the final game.

The fourth Giro di Burnaby could not have been better scripted. Two first-year entrants, Cameron MacKinnon of Calgary and 19-year-old Saskatchewan rider Julia Garnet, won their debut races in the centrepiece of B.C.

Lucas Gatto of Burnaby finished second at junior golf's first tournament of the season in the Okanagan.

Burnaby's Kelsey Haberl was named to the 2011 Canadian Open Fastpitch all-star team on July 15. The first-base for the Canadian national team averaged .381 at the plate and was error-free in the tournament.

The Burnaby Hurricanes made it to the Western Canadian junior women's fastpitch championships through the front door.

The Burnaby Hurricanes made it to the Western Canadian junior women's fastpitch championships through the front door.

It was the first hole-in-hole of Joe Sakic's career and it couldn't have come at a better time.

Three girls on Burnaby's provincial gold-medal-winning bantam lacrosse team will be headlining Team B.C. at the 2011 national girls' lacrosse championships in New Westminster, beginning Saturday. B.C.

Burnaby native Dave Sheldon has a new job. Sheldon resigned as play-by-play voice of the AHL's Abbotsford Heat after he was offered and accepted the job as CKNW Sportstalk Weekend host.