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She is a pint-sized pixie. But with big dreams. Chief among them is to meet Tiger Woods. Anna Wu might get a chance to do just that this spring at Augusta National in Georgia, where there have known to be a few Tiger sightings.

In four seasons of junior hockey, Marty Westhaver has seen just about everything. And then there was Friday night at The Q Centre. When the Victoria Grizzlies’ captain walked into the locker-room before the game, there were a bunch of empty lockers.

The Langford-based Canadian women’s rugby sevens team made a timely statement Saturday by capturing the silver medal in the Dubai Sevens. It came with the 2020 Tokyo Olympics now rounding into view.

VICTORIA 3 SEATTLE 1 There were no Spartans, as in the movie, but 300 turned into a good plot point for the Victoria Royals on Saturday night.

ALBERNI VALLEY 4 VICTORIA 3 A depleted, rag-tag bunch of Victoria Grizzlies gave the Alberni Valley Bulldogs a serious scare Friday night, but the visitors hung on to edge the Grizzlies 4-3 in front of 1,191 in attendance at The Q Centre.

SEATTLE 4 VICTORIA 1 No captain? No problem for the Seattle Thunderbirds. The Thunderbirds began the post-Matthew Wedman era with a 4-1 Western Hockey League victory over the Victoria Royals on Friday night.

Better now than next summer in Tokyo. The Langford-based Canadian men’s and women’s sevens rugby teams, both qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games, got off to uneven starts at the Dubai Sevens.

Alex DiPaolo has a new lease on life, and he’s making the most of it. After his junior hockey career got stuck in neutral with the perennial sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

Is it too soon to start discussing the wild-card race in the Western Hockey League? Not if you’re the Seattle Thunderbirds or Prince George Cougars, who are now in a quest to keep in touch with the rest of the group in the Western Conference.

The Western Hockey League bantam draft in May will be the last known under that name. It will become the WHL U-15 draft beginning in 2021 in keeping with the Hockey sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ divisional name changes which go into effect next season.