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Defence delivered the gold to Team B.C.’s female midget box lacrosse team last month in Coquitlam. As hosts of the national championships, B.C.

SFU men’s soccer’s 33-game home unbeaten streak was snapped Saturday night after California State University San Bernardino scored a goal in the second minute and then hung on for a 1-0 win in the final game of the Burnaby Showdown.

It’s been a rosy start to the season for the Grandview Steelers.

Wily veteran Geoff Ryan delivered the telling blow last Saturday, lifting the Burnaby Lake Rugby Club’s premier men’s team to a 10-3 win over the UBC Thunderbirds at Burnaby Lake.

Their connections cross from Burnaby to New Westminster, and their playing career saw them work together for just a few months, but John Wilson and Paul Dal Monte will be entering the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame on the same ticket.

Obstacles and challenges are nothing new for the St. Thomas More Knights football program.

Since her early teens, Christine Sinclair’s role and main job has been to bury the ball and be a force on the soccer pitch. It’s only been until the last few years that the Burnaby native has had to sell burgers.

Leo Harper was red-hot on the front nine last Thursday, right when it counted, to stage a rally that led him to the B.C. Juvenile Boys Golf Championship title at The Meadows at Pemberton.

Fresh off a third consecutive conference title and its seventh championship in the past nine years, Simon Fraser University enters the season as the unanimous favorite to defend its title in the 2019 Great Northwest Athletic Conference Preseason Men’

Forces on the court, the Moscrop Secondary pair of Fiona Chen and Alana Leung are equally powerful allies off it.