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The 2019 Western Lacrosse Association regular season will run May 23 through July 27, the league announced Wednesday.

Newfoundlander Kyle McGrath is right at home in all the snow Victoria has been smothered with the last few days. The St. John’s product is also feeling more at home with the surging Victoria Grizzlies.

Pacific FC is two rounds away from playing the Vancouver Whitecaps of Major League Soccer.

The Victoria Royals and Kamloops Blazers are mirror images in goal this season in the Western Hockey League. Both sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Division rivals feature 20-year-old veterans backed up by young rookies who the clubs see as their respective heirs apparent.

Special players do, well, special things.

The University of Victoria Vikes will have a familiar foe — one they split the regular-season series against — awaiting them this week in the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ West women’s basketball playoff quarter-finals.

Being the defending Olympic champion, as freestyle skier Cassie Sharpe of Comox is after her crowning acnievement last year in the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, makes you queen of the half-pipe. But the glow doesn’t last forever.

VICTORIA 7 TRI-CITY 4 Blowout turnabout proved fair play for the Victoria Royals.

VICTORIA 4 WENATCHEE 1 It was Help Fill a Dream Night at The Q Centre on Saturday and the Victoria Grizzlies also helped themselves to a big two points against the defending sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League champions.

On a Saturday in which its home base of Greater Victoria experienced a rare bout of real Canadian winter, the national rugby team found the going too hot to handle in Sao Paulo.