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As Jimmy Jones signed his scorecard Monday at Gorge Vale, a 68 that qualified him for the Bayview Place DC Bank Open presented by the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, the score recorder said: “Your mom would have been proud of you.

More than 1,500 triathletes from around the world have converged on the Island for today’s Subaru Ironman Victoria 70.3, yet the names of two of the favourites have a familiar ring to them.

It was a classic all-Island match-up as the Oak Bay Barbs toppled the defending champion Shawnigan Lake School Stags 24-13 in the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ boys’ high school Quad-A rugby championship game at Rotary Stadium in Abbotsford. Oak Bay won its first sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

VICTORIA 7 WENATCHEE 1 It isn’t rocket science. But it is civil engineering.

The Nanaimo Timbermen, who have missed the playoffs the past 10 years, shocked the visiting Victoria Shamrocks 12-9 in the Western Lacrosse Association’s Island derby Saturday night at Frank Crane Arena.

Greater Victoria moved another step toward playing against MLS teams Vancouver Whitecaps, Toronto FC and Montreal Impact in the Canadian pro soccer championships, which would be part and parcel of being in the new Canadian Premier League.

The Victoria Shamrocks are getting an engine overhaul, from front to back, for a pair of weekend Western Lacrosse Association games.

Junuary and weather more suited to, well, anything except baseball, greeted the start of the 2018 West Coast League season Friday night at Wilson’s Group Stadium at Royal Athletic Park.

Victoria HarbourCats faithful again showed that only fairweather sports fans are dissuaded by showers.

The new pro soccer Canadian Premier League is set to announce today that a team based in Greater Victoria will be playing in the inaugural league season, which begins in April 2019.