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The championship series that lacrosse fans were hoping and wanting to see got off on the wrong foot for the Victoria Shamrocks on Wednesday night.

Kids learn to climb early. It’s a natural progression, along with sitting, crawling and standing. As they grow up, some of them — like the teenagers at Boulders Climbing Gym this week — just keep right on rising to new heights.

Golf is among the most individual of sports. But it better get used to this whole multi-sport Games gig — sharing the dining room with discus throwers, rowers and water-polo players — when it re-enters the Summer Olympics at Rio in 2016.

Victoria race car driver Josh Reaume is headed back to familiar ground to rev up his season. Reaume has qualified for this weekend’s NASCAR K and N West Series race — the Napa Auto Parts 150 — at Evergreen Speedway in Monroe, Wash.

Medallist Frank Garber of Kirkland, Wash., the top seed heading into match play, advanced through the rounds of 32 and 16 Wednesday into today’s quarter-finals at the 59th Pacific Northwest Golf Association junior boys championship at Bear Mountain.

It’s not the Donovan Bailey and sprint-relay gold-medal halcyon days of the 1990s, but sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ is showing signs of awakening from its track and field slumber with two medals so far at 2013 world championships in Moscow.

The Western Lacrosse Association championship is going to be a prize fight between two heavyweights, with the Victoria Shamrocks in one corner and the Langley Thunder in the other.

Frank Garber has all the credentials — Washington high school golf champion and state junior player of the year and committed to the Pac-12 University of Washington Huskies — and he has flashed them amply at Bear Mountain.

The Victoria Shamrocks now feel they can handle just about anything.

It was a memorable summer personally for Cam Levins, who got married on sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Day in Victoria at St. Ann’s Academy. But it was highly forgettable on the track.