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Victoria Royals head coach Dan Price was asked how important Sunday鈥檚 4-1 victory was in sending a message to the Vancouver Giants ahead of their anticipated first-round Western Hockey League playoff series. 鈥淚t was an internal message,鈥� said Price.

The Island lifestyle appears to be suiting Genevieve Lalonde just fine. That she is fitting in might be the understatement of the running season.

VANCOUVER 6 VICTORIA 2 Be it ever so humble, there鈥檚 no place like home, and the Vancouver Giants look to have it sewn up in terms of an earned perk.

SALMON ARM 4 VICTORIA 0 The Victoria Grizzlies are heading home down 2-0 in their best-of-seven, first-round playoff series with the Salmon Arm Silverbacks, and if they don鈥檛 find their offence soon, it鈥檒l be a long summer for the young team.

The City of Angels proved decidedly un-angelic early Saturday for the Langford-based Canadian men鈥檚 rugby team with two losses to start the Los Angeles Sevens.

The Salmon Arm Silverbacks unleashed all their arsenal on the Victoria Grizzlies on Friday night, and while the Grizzlies nearly survived, they wilted at the end, allowing the Silverbacks to claw out a Game 1 victory in front of 1,231 hometown fans a

The Vancouver Giants have moved into a second-place tie with the Victoria Royals in the sa国际传媒 Division of the Western Hockey League with the Giants holding two games in hand.

Today Bear Mountain, tomorrow Tokyo. Well, not literally for the latter. It鈥檚 actually in July and August.

When it comes to playoff hockey in the sa国际传媒 Hockey League, Marty Westhaver has seen it all. The 20-year-old captain of the Victoria Grizzlies has played 25 post-season games in the past two seasons.

It鈥檚 Royals-Giants: The Prequel. Victoria and Vancouver will likely meet in the first round of the Western Hockey League playoffs.