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Andy Hebenton, one of the finest and most graceful players in Victoria hockey history, died late Tuesday in Portland at the age of 89.

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Brad Norris-Jones, who announced Wednesday he is leaving the Victoria HarbourCats baseball club after six seasons as GM of the West Coast League franchise, remembers the skeptics around town. 鈥淭hey said we were not going to make it.

Don Cherry and his loud blazers are coming to Naden. The hockey personality is heading to Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt for a celebration of the sport Feb. 16-17 as part of that weekend鈥檚 Rogers Hometown Hockey broadcast, it was announced Wednesday.

Just call it Taylor Town. Three generations are represented when the Oak Bay High School Breakers girls鈥� basketball team plays at home this season. Lynden Taylor plays on a floor named in honour of her grandfather, while her father coaches.

Victoria baseball players Michael Saunders and Jesse Hodges, no strangers to the Canadian national team, are getting reacquainted with the international game this week in Sao Paulo and Ibiuna, Brazil, at the qualifying tournament for the 2019 Pan Am

If this is Quesnel, it must be Tuesday. In yet another movie reference, there were no trains, but more than a few planes, automobiles and buses to get from Prince Albert, Sask., to Saskatoon to Vancouver to Quesnel.

Former Victoria Royals forward Lane Zablocki can probably give a cautionary bit of advice to the four Victoria Grizzlies players ranked by Central Scouting for the 2019 NHL draft.

Claire Eccles鈥� numbers, and demeanour, were modest. But not her impact. The first woman to play in the West Coast League of baseball will have her No.

The University of Victoria Vikes knew they needed to beware of the emotional wave UBC-O would be riding into Saturday night鈥檚 sa国际传媒 West men鈥檚 basketball game in Kelowna.