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The Victoria Shamrocks selected Keegan Bell from the New Westminster Junior Salmonbellies sixth overall Thursday in the Western Lacrosse Association draft on Thursday night in Langley.

It’s basketball, Canadian style, which means February Madness. The similarity with the NCAA madness of March across the border is that the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ West opening round of the playoffs is also single-loss elimination.

Two former Canadian national team athletes, Sara Brant (née Ballantyne) and Lori Clarke, will enter the University of Victoria Sports Hall of Fame with the Class of 2019. Also part of the class is builder Mike Holmes.

It has been a busy last seven days for Alex Newhook, but the Victoria Grizzlies captain wouldn’t have it any other way.

Will coveted Marshal King fall to the hometown Victoria Shamrocks at No. 6 in tonight’s 2019 Western Lacrosse Association draft to be held in Langley? His brother, Jesse King, did just that in that exact position in 2014.

A West Shore brother-and-sister act proved too much to handle for the rest of the field at last weekend’s 36th Annual Alberni Invitational Wrestling Tournament. Jack Pye and sister Ellie won gold medals in their respective divisions.

With apologies to Butch and Sundance, but who are those guys? The Victoria Royals’ league second-worst power play finally got untracked and scored twice in a 5-3 Western Hockey League victory Wednesday night over the Seattle Thunderbirds before 3,181

It’s Haney at the helm. The Victoria HarbourCats have exchanged one former major leaguer for another as head coach of the West Coast League baseball team.

They might have been the Nanaimo Ice of the Western Hockey League instead of the soon-to-be Winnipeg Ice.

Seattle Thunderbirds head coach Matt O’Dette had his share of highs and lows in Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre during seven seasons as a pro defenceman with the Fresno Falcons and Stockton Thunder against the Victoria Salmon Kings in the ECHL.