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When it’s happened three years in a row — every Western Hockey League season the Royals have been in Victoria — you can start labeling it a tradition.

The expression drive for show, putt for dough does not hold water in one aspect of the sport of golf — that being long drive competitions.

Now that Simon Thomas of Victoria appears to have established himself in the top-tier of Canadian soccer goalkeepers, he knows the next step will be the steepest and hardest to make.

At the end of Sunday’s 3-2 West Coast League matinée victory over the Bend Elks at Royal Athletic Park, the owner of the Victoria HarbourCats quipped: “I hope people don’t forget about us.

Kirsten Sweetland of Victoria was the rising prodigy of female triathlon before injuries sidetracked her career, and she seemed to disappear from view.

Curtis Dickson’s fourth goal of the game, with just a second left on the clock, gave the Maple Ridge Burrards a 10-9 Western Lacrosse Association win over the visiting Victoria Shamrocks on Sunday night.

Geoff Harris meet Gary Reed. You’re going to need him — or at least the retired Olympic finalist’s namesake Gary Reed 800-Metre Race on July 5 at Centennial Stadium.

The province’s best female golfers will gather at Pitt Meadows Golf Club beginning today for the 2013 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Golf Women’s Amateur and Mid-Amateur Championships.

BOSTON — Bryan Bickell and Dave Bolland scored goals 17 seconds apart late in the third period Monday as the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup in dramatic fashion with an amazing 3-2 last-minute comeback victory over the Boston Bruins in Game 6.

At the end of Sunday’s 3-2 West Coast League matinée victory over the Bend Elks at Royal Athletic Park, the owner of the Victoria HarbourCats quipped: “I hope people don’t forget about us.