Local Sports

The Richmond-based Connaught Skating Club had a successful tilt at the annual BC Section Autumn Leaves Competition on the weekend. The club had 40 skaters competing against the best of their rivals in the province and came away with 15 medals.

The softball memorabilia discovered in a Richmond dumpster by Earl Clapp has found new homes.

Richmond dignitaries and politicians of all stripes turned out in force on the weekend to officially open Richmond Tennis Club’s new bubble facility.

Oct. 10 was World Squash Day and the non-profit Sunshine Squash Club in Richmond hosted a COVID-friendly event that cultivated squash spirit among new learners and brought together the sport’s community.

Richmond lacrosse talent Teagan Ng has made a “verbal commitment” to Arizona State University for D1 lacrosse. Teagan is set to begin the next chapter of her career at Arizona in 2022.

As a part of the Change-Up Project, the Vancouver Canadians Baseball Foundation, in cooperation with The Cape Group, has awarded Richmond City Baseball $50,000 to refurbish their diamonds.

An international adult hockey tournament to be hosted in Richmond – slated for last March, then postponed until 2021 – has been put on hold until 2022.

When Wesley Chiu was named to Skate Canada’s 2019-20 NextGen team, he wasn’t even able to be on the ice.

Community-based sports groups at risk of closing due to COVID-19 can now apply for aid from the province’s $1.5-million Local Sport Relief Fund.

One of Richmond’s longest-running men’s hockey leagues is in “grave danger of folding,” due to pandemic restrictions on the ice.