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Even more than the cherry blossoms and cruise ships, it’s a sure sign of spring when the final three team sports of the high school season — girls’ soccer, boys’ rugby and track and field — take to the pitches and running ovals around the province.

A good showing in the annual Nike Spring Classic high school girls’ soccer tournament was all that was left for University of Victoria Vikes women’s soccer coach Tracy David to lock up six talented new recruits for next season.

A few hours before the Victoria Mariners and Victoria Eagles take to the Lambrick Park diamond tonight at 6:35 for their sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Premier Baseball League derby, Tyler O’Neill will step on to the Wrigley Field outfield making his MLB debut with the St.

Brent Wilson of Gorge Vale and Royal Colwood hitters Kevin Carrigan and Darren Day Jr. shot two-under par 69s to top the leaderboard in the seventh event of the 2018 Bayview Place Vikes Performance Tour on Monday at Highland Pacific Golf Club.

They call them the Barbs. It should be as in barbed wire. The St. Michaels University School Blue Jags got hung up all over it Tuesday evening as Oak Bay recorded a 46-7 victory in the 24th Rees Boot game.

Sports teams are faithful to the recruiting pipelines they most trust.

Before Oak Bay-grad Connor Braid and St. Michaels University School alumni Mike Fuailefau and Luke McCloskey represented sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ at Gold Coast in sevens over the weekend in the 2018 Commonwealth Games, they were given the Boot.

The Canadian national team rugby roster is littered with players who have come out of the Castaway-Wanderers and University of Victoria Vikes programs. The teams will renew their rivalry on Saturday at 2:30 p.m.

This is where dreams are made. There are 46 Western Hockey League players, but none from the Victoria Royals, on NHL Central Scouting’s final ranking for the 2018 NHL draft. The Royals are the lone WHL team without a player on the list.

The Campbell River Storm indeed had a stormy time of it in the 2018 Fred Cyclone Taylor Cup at Minoru Arena in Richmond.