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The past intersects with the present when the Canadian women’s junior field hockey team takes on Chile in a six-game exhibition series, beginning Friday at 4 p.m. on the University of Victoria turf pitch.

The Walla Walla Sweets rode a seven-run third inning to a 9-7 West Coast League victory over the Victoria HarbourCats on Wednesday night in southeastern Washington state.

The Victoria Royals will have a hole to fill with the 38th overall pick today in the Canadian Hockey League import draft. Forward Igor Martynov, who represented Belarus in the 2018 world junior championship in Buffalo, is returning to the Royals.

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A city can’t host international sporting events without some disruption. The 2019 International Ice Hockey Federation world junior championship will expel the Victoria Royals out of Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre from Dec. 15 to Jan. 9.

Carter Berger of the Victoria Grizzlies waited in vain last weekend, almost hoping against hope, to hear his name called in the latter rounds of the 2018 NHL draft. It didn’t happen.

The slogan goes Walla Walla is a town so nice they named it twice. The southeastern Washington community that some simply refer to as W2 was welcoming enough for the Victoria HarbourCats on Monday night.

The Victoria Highlanders split over the weekend on the Oregon Trail in United Soccer League Premier Development League play.

With apologies to The Who, the kids are alright. On a Canadian national basketball team laced with NBA talent, it was a couple of high schoolers who stole the show Sunday evening before 4,783 fans at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre. R.J.

The Oregon Trail has been good, so far, for the Victoria Highlanders in the United Soccer League Premier Development League.