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Heavily involved in sports themselves, and big influences in their offspring鈥檚 careers, dads David Crossley, Johnny Entzminger and Garry Hirayama were planning on watching their kids perform live in the Tokyo Olympics. That was pre-March 2020.

It is a fitting metaphor for this pandemic-affected hockey season that the biggest Cup win for an Island team should come off the ice rather than on it.

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The Victoria HarbourCats have begun selling single-game tickets for their West Coast League baseball season beginning at Wilson鈥檚 Group Stadium at Royal Athletic Park on June 4.

Track has high and low hurdles, but nothing has matched the metaphorical pandemic hurdle the sport has faced. It has resulted in less than half of the 60 expected Canadian spots filled so far for the Tokyo Olympics.

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