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It’ll be cookin’ in Colwood as sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s best junior players will gather at the Q Centre from Dec. 11-14.

Just call him Mr. Shutout or Mr. Clean Sheet. Victoria Grizzlies goaltender Kurtis Chapman has not allowed a goal in his last two sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

Ask any Island volleyball international where it all began for them, and they will invariably point back to their high schools and warm gyms on cool nights.

It’s the appetizer before the main course. Three Island communities will host five exhibition games ahead of the 2019 International Ice Hockey Federation world junior championship tournament. Nine sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

Pick any of the ‘R’ words: Redemption, Revenge, Reynolds. It was all that and more Tuesday at Braefoot Park.

It won’t be too big a leap to pro soccer with Pacific FC for Thomas Gardner. He has already been there and done that in three seasons with Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2, the main farm team for the Major League Soccer club.

Alex Newhook continues skating into rarefied hockey territory.

The luck of the random lottery draw was not kind to Pacific FC, which drew the second-to-last slot in today’s Canadian Premier League draft of U Sports soccer players in Vancouver.

The University of Victoria Vikes women’s basketball team swept Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops over the weekend, while the Vikes men split with their WolfPack rivals in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ West action.

The Victoria Royals knew things were likely to even out after a sticks-ablaze 7-0 start to the Western Hockey League season. But a 3-6 stretch likely wasn’t what they envisioned as a followup.