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KAMLOOPS 3 VICTORIA 2 The Kamloops team in the Western Hockey League suffers from Toronto Blue Jays syndrome. Its championships from the early 1990s loom like a shadow over everything that has happened since.

It will not be a typo on the scoresheet.

It’s a sign of the times. Island-based Rowing sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ is utilizing cutting-edge viral-detection technology in a pilot project to protect against COVID-19 as it prepares its athletes for the Tokyo Olympics this summer.

The Victoria Royals have had two games lopped from their original 24-game WHL schedule because the league announced it will not the play all the contests postponed by the Kelowna Rockets’ recent COVID-19 outbreak.

The Victoria Grizzlies kept on rolling Monday night at Weyerhaeuser Arena in Port Alberni. The Grizzlies won their sixth consecutive sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League game with a 5-1 victory over the Cowichan Valley Capitals.

To the surprise of absolutely nobody, the WHL made it official Monday that there will be no playoffs following the 24-game regular season. Which is a good thing for the Victoria Royals, because they were not going to get there, regardless.

It was a sunny, spring morning in Victoria on Saturday and Kimanda Jarzebiak spent it on the internet watching the first World Cup wall-climbing event of the season from Switzerland. That’s the kind of dedication to your sport that gets you noticed.

Bernie Pascall has spent the past 15 years in the idyllic retirement setting of Parksville, away from the shouting and tumult of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s great stadiums.

Some might consider it an unenviable role for a graduating junior hockey player.

The American International College Yellow Jackets, who won the Atlantic conference champ-ionship and made the NCAA Division 1 tournament this year, have to be liking what they see in recruit Andrew Amousse.