Local Sports

LOWER Mainland rugby playoffs come to a boil this week and, as usual, North Shore teams are doing most of the stirring. In senior boys AA action Rockridge and Collingwood will meet in an all-North Shore final Thursday, May 17 starting at 4 p.m.

NORTH Vancouver buddies Giancarlo Cusano and Benito Colangelo started a men's soccer team three years ago and they've been winning ever since.

NORTH Vancouver track star Harry Jerome will be part of the secondever class inducted into the Athletics Canada Hall of Fame, earning recognition as an in memoriam inductee. Born in Prince Albert, Sask.

Massive turnaround for Capilano RFC's elite men's team

On Saturday May 5th, North Vancouvers Klahanie Park was the setting for the 2012 Provincial Rugby 1st Division Ceilis Cup Semi final as the 12-2 Capilano Rugby Club hosted the 7-7 Vancouver Meralomas.

On the afternoon of Saturday may 5th, North Vancouvers Parkgate Field was the setting for the second game of a BC Premier League Baseball Double Header as the North Shore Twins hosted the White Rock Tritons.

B.C. Lions star Paris Jackson leads new team

The Capilano University basketball program may have a bit more of a clubby atmosphere next season as two Lower Mainland basketball academy owners have been named as the head coaches of the Blues men's and women's teams.

Paris Jackson will play for Lions and coach at Sentinel