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A hockey rink in high summer is not always a busy place.

Victoria HarbourCats general manager Brad Norris-Jones quipped to slugger Hunter Vansau, following Tuesday night鈥檚 10-3 West Coast League victory over the Walla Walla Sweets: 鈥淗ey Hunter, are you going to move to Victoria?鈥� Vansau replied: 鈥淚f you ge

The setting was stunning for the 2018 rugby sevens World Cup at AT&T Park by the bay in San Francisco. But not so magnificent to match were the Langford-based Canadian men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 teams overall performances by the bay.

More than a century of history comes crashing into Duncan Meadows and Pheasant Glen in Qualicum Beach when they co-host host the 114th Canadian men鈥檚 amateur golf championship Aug. 4-9.

Former rower David Calder of Victoria has been on an Olympic podium, with a silver medal around his neck, at Beijing in 2008. But a podium at the 2018 sa国际传媒 Summer Games in the Cowichan Valley filled him with just as much joy, if of a different kind.

The cross-strait, cross-border West Coast League rivalry went to the Port Angeles Lefties, and in a big way. The Lefties swept the visiting Victoria HarbourCats in a three-game set, topping it off with a 9-7 victory on Monday at Civic Field.

Now that the sizzle is done, it鈥檚 time for the steak.

The Coquitlam Sports Centre box lacrosse floor, on a sweltering summer Saturday night, might not quite be like playing in front of 40,000 fans in the U.S. collegiate NCAA Div. 1 field-lacrosse tournament.

It wasn鈥檛 on the championship side of the equation, but there was a measure of satisfaction to be derived on the consolation side for the Langford-based Canadian men鈥檚 rugby sevens team on Saturday at the World Cup at AT&T Field in San Francisco.

Riley Pickrell of Victoria continued his emergence in cycling by winning his second stage of the 2018 Tour de l鈥橝bitibi in Quebec, sa国际传媒鈥檚 leading the junior men鈥檚 stage race, in which several later-notable riders have competed early in their career