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When sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Premier Baseball League Nanaimo Pirates pitching graduate Josh Burgmann last week became the highest sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ player taken in the 2019 MLB draft, selected in the fifth round by the Chicago Cubs, it continued an impressive tradition.

The University of Victoria Vikes basketball players, currently involved in spring-league play when not following the Raptors games, now know what the fall and winter will bring.

One of the reasons for summer collegiate baseball is to get NCAA university players used to what it will be like if they make it to minor-pro ball.

From Victoria, via Manitoba, and headed to Tokyo 2020 with a bullet. Triathlete Tyler Mislawchuk continued his breakout season by winning his second World Cup race of the season this week in Huatulco, Mexico.

The Victoria Shamrocks early-season woes continued Sunday night at Maple Ridge with a 9-5 loss to the Burrards at Cam Neely Arena. It was a reprise of the 2018 Western Lacrosse Association final.

There is something about Victoria HarbourCats pitchers the Philadelphia Phillies obviously like. The Phillies went to the well at Wilson’s Group Stadium at Royal Athletic Park one more time and have signed HarbourCats hurler Josh Gessner.

It was a dream deferred, not a dream denied. The Toronto Raptors have painted sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ red and black from Victoria to St. John’s, Monday night’s white-knuckle loss in Game 5 of the NBA final notwithstanding.

While Boston Bruins president Cam Neely watches his club in a crucial Stanley Cup finals hockey game today in St. Louis, his namesake arena in his hometown will host a key early-season Western Lacrosse Association game.

This sporting spring in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ is all about the Toronto Raptors in the NBA final.

Growing up on Manly Beach in Sydney, one would expect Josh Gessner to be more at home on a surfboard, or at least a cricket oval, than a baseball diamond. He does surf. But instead of a fast bowler, he became a fastball pitcher.