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Beacon Hill Little League players were pitching apples, rather than baseballs, at the Fairfield Thrifty Foods store this week. It was all part of getting ready for the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Major Little League Championship, which starts today in Vancouver.

Never bet against a longshot. In front of an amazed crowd, the hometown boys from Layritz won a 5-4 shocker over heavily favoured White Rock/South Surrey in the semifinals of the 9-10 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Little League championship on Friday at Layritz Park.

A trio of Island teams will begin their quests in the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Premier Baseball League post-season on Saturday as the Victoria Mariners and Eagles and the Nanaimo Pirates all qualified.

Standing between the Victoria Junior Shamrocks and an appearance at the Minto Cup national Junior A lacrosse championship are the Coquitlam Junior Adanacs. Starting at 3 p.m.

You just know this trip up I-5 felt really, really long. The Victoria HarbourCats (15-17) return to Royal Athletic Park tonight to face the Wenatchee AppleSox after having lost four consecutive games and 11 of the last 15.

With just three regular-season games remaining and first place implausible, the 9-6 Victoria Shamrocks will attempt to snap out of a greasy skid of three losses in their last four outings.

Island judo athletes helped sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ win a record number of medals at the recent Canadian championships in Richmond.

It’s not a neighbourhood in which the Victoria HarbourCats have previously dwelled. For the first time in its inaugural season, the West Coast League baseball club has fallen beneath .500.

Naomi Ko’s goals in golf are as crystal clear as the view of the ocean from where she is teeing it up this week, touring the fairways at Torrey Pines in the San Diego area.

Bryan Carbery isn’t retiring to spend more time at the golf course. The golf course is where the coach of the University of Victoria golf program has already spent most of his life.