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Even an offence as loaded as that of the Victoria Grizzlies can only overcome so much. The Grizzlies’ crease issues continued in a 6-5 shootout loss to the lowly Surrey Eagles on Sunday at The Q Centre.

Kevin Carrigan of host Royal Colwood, posting a 2-under-par 68, won the first event of the Bayview Place Performance Tour played Sunday afternoon.

So it begins. Rugby sevens player Caroline Crossley of Victoria scored the first points of 2020 Tokyo Olympic qualifying for sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, in any sport, over the weekend in Glendale, Colorado.

Cam Levins of Black Creek made the debut of a lifetime. In only his first marathon, the Islander became the fastest Canadian ever to run the 42.

No one is looking across the Pacific just yet. But the Langford-based Canadian women’s sevens rugby team began its quest for 2020 Tokyo Olympic qualification strongly Saturday at the USA Sevens in Glendale, Colorado.

Qualicum Beach resident Elaine Tanner has come to accept her achievement of 50 years ago for what it is — a landmark moment in Canadian sports history. It wasn’t viewed that way at the time, however.

POWELL RIVER 12 VICTORIA 5 If Craig Didmon wanted to know what life was like without a proven No. 1 goalie, the Victoria Grizzlies general manager and head coach got a glimpse of it Saturday night, and it wasn’t pretty.

KELOWNA 5 VICTORIA 1 Like that little girl warning her family in the movie Poltergeist, the rest of the Western Hockey League should take notice the Kelowna Rockets “are baaaaack.

A marquee fall today for rugby sees the Langford-based Canadian team open the 2018-19 World Series season at the USA Women’s Sevens in Glendale, Colorado, while notable sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ men’s premiership XVs action animates Windsor Park and Juan de Fuca.

The Powell River Kings seem to have replaced the Nanaimo Cippers as the main Island Division rival for the Victoria Grizzlies in the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League.