Local Sports

In just over a year’s time, Burnaby rinks will be ringing with the sound of international competition. There will certainly be a number of ringers in attendance, too.

The Burnaby Central Wildcats are anticipating their toughest test yet.

Leo Harper and Bradley Gagnon picked great times to post some of their better rounds of the golf season.

For a third straight season, the Simon Fraser University men’s soccer team are kings of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference. Certainly it’s been true of games played at Terry Fox Field for the past four years, improving to 30-0-4 over that span.

That proverbial window of opportunity popped open not once but twice for the St. Thomas More Knights last Friday. To no one’s surprise, the squad leaped through it twice and emerged with a warm, fuzzy winning feeling. The Knights upset the No.

Mountain United Football Club claimed their first-ever Canadian title Monday, with their U15 girls topping the host province’s Lakeshore SC in the Canada Soccer National Championship final in Laval, Que.

Sports dynasties and Burnaby may not be something that rolls off the tongue these days, but there were times when the locals were considered to be versions of the Montreal Canadiens, New York Yankees and Dallas Cowboys.

Even while on the shelf, Burnaby’s Massimo Rizzo is attracting plenty of attention.

The season isn’t long – barely eight weeks, if you’re good enough to push it forward to the championship tournament – but if it goes the way they hope, it will be sweet.

Two members of the Burnaby Lake Field Hockey Club are off to Buenos Aires to play for Canada at the Youth Olympic Games.