Local Sports

Coquitlam wins BCPBL playoff doubleheader

FOR the first time since 1981 North Vancouver will have a junior hockey team. The junior B Squamish Wolfpack of the Pacific International Junior Hockey League (PIJHL) will be relocating to North Vancouver this fall.

Little League club hopes to earn spot in North Van hosted national tourney

NORTH Vancouver's Ben Maxwell signed a one-year free agent contract with the Winnipeg Jets last weekend, joining the relocated NHL franchise in moving from Atlanta to the Manitoba city for the 2011-12 season.

WEST Vancouver golfer David Rose shot a final round two-under-par 70 to clinch the 109th British Columbia Amateur Championship played last weekend at The Dunes at Kamloops course.

TWO players and one coach from North Shore schools helped the British Columbia under-18 provincial team win bronze at the 2011 Football Canada Cup tournament held July 9-15 in Lethbridge, Alta.

Wong aims to make cut at PGA's Canadian Open

NORTH Vancouver's Lindsey Butterworth raced to the biggest win of her athletics career earlier this month, claiming gold at the Canadian Junior Track and Field Championships held in Winnipeg