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Nate Pecota turned in a memorable farewell performance Thursday at Wilson’s Group Stadium at Royal Athletic Park.

The Langford-based Canadian rugby team is in Fiji, but isn’t there to enjoy the white sands and turquoise waters. It’s all business in paradise as sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ takes on the quicksilver Fijians in a Pacific Nations Cup game today in Suva (10:15 p.m.

The fourth-seed Nanaimo Timbermen gave a good account of themselves before nearly 1,000 fans on home floor in the Western Lacrosse Association’s Island derby Thursday night at Frank Crane Arena.

Michael Petrasso has been around and showed off his pro pedigree, which includes a career playing for Queens Park Rangers, Oldham Athletic, Coventry City and Notts County in England and Montreal Impact in the MLS.

First sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, and then the world. That’s the situation for two Victoria Little League softball teams this weekend.

All goalies have origin stories of how they first came to inhabit the crease. It usually entails putting your hand up when the regular goaltender failed to show up for a game in Peewee or something like that. But not Dylan Garand of Victoria.

Chase Meidroth’s RBI single in the bottom of the 10th inning gave the Victoria HarbourCats a 5-4 West Coast League victory over the Cowlitz Black Bears on Wednesday night at Wilson’s Group Stadium at Royal Athletic Park.

Defence starts with offence for the Victoria Shamrocks. It was thought the fourth-seed Nanaimo Timbermen would try to disrupt the Shamrocks by employing a quick-counter transition game so Victoria’s fearsome defence wouldn’t have time to set up.

Pacific FC and Valour FC both hit encouraging notes in their respective previous games.

There were no stealth attacks this time as the Victoria Shamrocks got off to a 1-0 lead in their best-of-seven WLA semifinal series against the Nanaimo Timbermen.