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A triumphant winter for Mount Washington continues. A fourth competitor from the Island’s main ski hill, cross-boarder Carle Brenneman of Comox, has been named to the Canadian team for the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympic Games in South Korea next month.

VICTORIA 4 CALGARY 1 Give Tanner Kaspick the puck, please. All the Victoria Royals centreman has done since he was acquired on the trade deadline back on Jan. 10 from the Brandon Wheat Kings is score goals.

There is little doubt that the Penticton Vees are the measuring stick for what teams aspire to be in the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League.

URUGUAY 38 CANADA 29 It was the Langford Lag after taking a 17-7 lead. The Westshore-based Canadian men’s rugby team, as a result, is going to require a Montevideo Miracle. Uruguay rallied to stun sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ 38-29 before 16,132 fans at sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

Piling on is not considered polite in sports. There is an exception, however, to be made for opening matches of two-game, total-point playoffs.

Cougars can be a scary beast — and the Mount Royal variety proved just that on Friday night.

The recharge suited the Victoria Royals well as the visitors pulled out a 4-3 overtime victory over the Vancouver Giants in an important Western Hockey League sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Division matchup on Friday night at the Langley Events Centre.

For the first time this season, Alex Newhook was coming off back-to-back games without a point. That didn’t sit well with the Victoria Grizzlies star 16-year-old rookie. So Friday night, he took it out on the Nanaimo Clippers.

Neither University of Victoria Vikes basketball team need look too far for inspiration on Shoot for the Cure night tonight at CARSA performance gym. Playing host to the Mount Royal Cougars in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ West action, beginning with the women at 6 p.m.

With exactly one-third of the Western Hockey League season remaining and roughly one-third of its roster being relatively new, the Victoria Royals are still in a gel mode as they make the stretch run of the 2017-18 campaign.