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With the West Coast League all-star game set later this month at Royal Athletic Park on his summer home diamond, you just know where Alex Real wants to be on that night. And it isn’t in the stands watching.

The old marketing adage about minor-pro baseball — and it applies to the summer collegiate West Coast League as well — is that most of the fans leaving the ballpark don’t remember the score as much as the experience.

Justin Kelly was around eight years old when he began his broadcasting career. Daydreaming about being a sportscaster, he called play-by-play for Vancouver Canucks and Toronto Blue Jays games with the sound turned down on his family’s TV set.

The Victoria Shamrocks welcomed back Scott Ranger and Jeff Shattler to the lineup on Saturday and worked their way back into the win column.

Island athletes seem to have the market cornered on flag-bearing.

KELOWNA 8 VICTORIA 7 They rolled back into town at 3:30 p.m., a little beaten and worse for wear but hoping to turn their recent West Coast League luck around.

GAME DAY: VICTORIA AT COQUITLAM, 7 P.M.

The Victoria Eagles were on the receiving end of another dose of Colton Wood on Thursday night, but they fought the hard-throwing right-hander off nicely. Wood, the Victoria Mariners’ pitching ace, faced the crosstown sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

The Wenatchee AppleSox cracked open the brooms. Too bad for the Victoria HarbourCats, the sport wasn’t curling. The host AppleSox (14-10) swept the three-game West Coast League baseball set against Victoria (11-9) with a 3-2 victory Thursday night.

What do step-ups, rhythm section, doubles and table tops have in common? They’re all crazy varieties of hilly jumps designed to provide plenty of thrills, chills and spills for some 500 to 600 BMX bicycle racers this weekend during the Vancouver Isla