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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.

Within 100 days to the Tokyo Olympic Games, it is a distraction the Langford-based world No. 3 Canadian women’s rugby sevens team doesn’t need. But there it is.

The Nightmare in the Interior continues for the Victoria Royals. The Prince George Cougars (4-3-2) defeated the Royals 5-2 in Kelowna to send the Royals (1-8-1) spiraling to their fifth consecutive Western Hockey League loss.

A relieved, and reprieved, Nanaimo Clippers club will return to the ice today to meet the Victoria Grizzlies in a sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League matinee in Port Alberni.

The Nanaimo Clippers have halted all team activities due to a preliminary positive test for COVID-19. The Clippers’ scheduled sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League game against the Alberni Valley Bulldogs on Thursday night was postponed.

VANCOUVER 4 - VICTORIA 0 The lessons from the school of hard knocks continued on Thursday night for the youthful Victoria Royals, who fell to 1-7-1 following a 4-0 Western Hockey League loss to the Vancouver Giants in Kamloops.

The Victoria Grizzlies (5-2) growled back from a three-goal deficit to defeat the Alberni Valley Bulldogs 4-3 in BCHL Island Division play Wednesday night. Eddie Yan scored with two seconds remaining in overtime for the winner.

There is an adage about familiarity breeding contempt. It is beginning to apply in the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Division of the Western Hockey League. That’s bound to happen when the only opponents are divisional. There are 22 teams in the WHL but each sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

The crack of the bat and smell of hotdogs will be absent from Royal Athletic Park for a second year. The 2021 West Coast League baseball season has been cancelled for the Victoria HarbourCats and the expansion Nanaimo NightOwls due to the pandemic.