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Riley Wheeldon of Comox should be taking plenty of confidence into PGA Tour sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s second stop of the season this week in Calgary.

Winter steelhead can be in Island rivers November to June.

The ripples in Elk Lake Sunday morning weren’t all caused by the swimming.

It was bound to happen, and it did Monday night at Elks Stadium in the Okanagan. The Kelowna Falcons won their first baseball game of the 2013 West Coast League season in nine tries with a 13-6 victory over the Victoria HarbourCats.

He is the Real Deal. Alex Real, the sturdy 215-pound wide-bodied draft pick of the Atlanta Braves, continued bringing West Coast League pitching to its knees.

Kurt Horne’s return to the Victoria Eagles’ roster was a triumphant one on Saturday afternoon. The national junior team pitcher tossed eight solid innings, allowing just a couple of hits in a 1-0 victory over the North Delta Blue Jays in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

Victoria HarbourCats field-manager Dennis Rogers reflected on the nature of the summer collegiate baseball West Coast League, where players finish their NCAA, NAIA, CIS or junior college seasons and are suddenly thrown together as near strangers with

VICTORIA 14 MAPLE RIDGE 9 The Rochester Knighthawks connection is still incomplete, but Victoria Shamrocks head coach Bob Heyes expects it will pay off in the long run.

The British Columbia Hockey League will play a 58-game schedule in 2013-14, two more games than last season. Each team will play two games at the Bauer BCHL Showcase, slated for Sept. 6-8 in Chilliwack, and then compete in 28 home and 28 away dates.

They have come from far and wide across North America, from big cities and small towns, to chase their diamond dreams on the Island. But none of the Victoria HarbourCats have come from a greater distance than Alex DeGoti of Miami, Fla.