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The freefall continues for the Langford-based Canadian men’s rugby team. Only one safety net remains. There is one berth — the 20th and final — remaining for the 2019 World Cup in Japan.

Sean Geall’s Kelowna Curling Club rink got their wish Friday afternoon at the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Men’s Curling Championship in Parksville — a rematch with four-time defending champ Jim Cotter.

Regardless whether it’s the left coast or the other coast, this guy comes out smelling like a rose on either of the Canadian rocks.

Forward Noah Gregor showed why the Victoria Royals have always remained so high on the player they originally drafted in bantam, then traded away, before re-acquiring this season at the Western Hockey League trade deadline.

In any other season, the Victoria Royals and Medicine Hat Tigers might be receiving more championship talk. But teams with seriously-scary talent run deep this season in the Western Hockey League.

Rob Lervold is going to be a little busier around the Westshore Rebels this summer. The president of the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

The Langford-based Canadian men’s rugby team is approaching it as being nine points down at halftime of a 160-minute rugby game. One team has to be leading, and the other trailing, at the half. Happens every day in sports.

There were high dramatics in the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ West women’s game at CARSA performance gym on Thursday night. Deb Huband, who as a player captained sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ to fourth place at the 1984 L.A. Olympics, is in her 25th season of coaching the University of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

Victoria Highlanders FC will enter the 2018 Premier Development League soccer season under a new ownership group, it was announced Wednesday.

Looking to build off their big win over the league-leading Penticton Vees last Sunday, the Victoria Grizzlies came flying out of the gate on Wednesday night at Frank Crane Arena in Nanaimo.