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It’s 40 for 40 for the GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon. It has joined a select list of worldwide races as an Abbott World Marathon Majors Wanda age-group qualifying event.

After a spring time of hardwood Raptors-mania across sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, sports fans on the Island came across a Raptors team this week that was a nemesis, but on the diamond.

Keegan Bell came back to haunt the Victoria Shamrocks on Wednesday night. The rookie, shipped by Victoria to the Langley Thunder at the trade deadline, scored a hat trick against his old team in an 11-8 Thunder victory at the Langley Events Centre.

It poured Wednesday at Pemberton, but not on the future prospects of the rising class of Island golfers.

The Elk Lake-based Canadian rowing team, which won five medals at World Cup II last month in Poznan, Poland, is entering a pared-down roster of six crews for World Cup III this weekend in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

It was a soggy Tuesday night at Wilson’s Group Stadium at Royal Athletic Park. But it didn’t rain on Matt Amrhein’s personal mound parade, although it almost did.

Ticket prices were announced Tuesday for the Vancouver Canucks versus Calgary Flames NHL exhibition game Sept. 16 at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre. Tickets will go on sale to the public Aug. 7 at 10 a.m. and will be available for $63.

Because of the emerging parallels to the St. Louis Blues’ season, the Victoria Shamrocks have adopted Gloria by Laura Branigan as their theme song for 2019.

Emma Entzminger grew up playing softball on diamonds around Greater Victoria. She could be performing on one in Tokyo next year. With that goal in mind, Entzminger swings into the biggest summer of her career with the Canadian women’s national team.

Championship teams are almost always composed of players willing to sacrifice.