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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

The hometown Lefties rallied from a 3-0 deficit to defeat the Victoria HarbourCats 9-6 in a West Coast League cross-strait, cross-border rivalry on Saturday in Port Angeles, Washington.

It was brutal by the Bay for the Langford-based Canadian men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 national rugby sevens teams. The World Cup dreams for both died an agonizing death on Friday at AT&T Park in San Francisco.

The Victoria Shamrocks responded with spirit and determination after a demoralizing previous loss.

Claire Eccles wishes she could have seen more game action this season with the Victoria HarbourCats. But sometimes in sports, it鈥檚 not about wins and losses.

Pacific will be the name and purple the dominant hue.

With good news in short supply for the Victoria Shamrocks this week, they got some when they most need it Lacrosse superstar Curtis Dickson, representing sa国际传媒 at the world field-lacrosse championships in Israel, will be missing from the Maple Ridge