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It took a while, but Noah Gregor is finally a Victoria Royal. The Royals reacquired the forward from Beaumont, Alta.

After struggling through a five-game losing skid, the Victoria Grizzlies came up with two of their best offensive performances of the season over the weekend in key Island Division matchups.

JACKSONVILLE 30 SEATTLE 24 JACKSONVILLE, Florida — Seattle coach Pete Carroll is ready to move on. He wants to ignore what might have been in a 30-24 loss at Jacksonville. He wants to erase Blair Walsh’s latest missed field goal.

VICTORIA 9 NANAIMO 4 It took just 48 seconds for Shawn O’Malley to get the teddy bears flying on Saturday night as the Victoria Grizzlies forward beat Nanaimo Clippers goaltender Taz Burman to get the crowd going at The Q Centre.

The Langford-based Canadian men’s rugby team had to contend with a difficult pool Saturday at the Cape Town Sevens in South Africa, but acquitted itself well in going 2-1 to advance to today’s quarter-finals.

At six-foot-seven, Jason Montgomery is an imposing sight on the ice. Not hockey ice, but the pebbled variety.

The five specialty slots on Western Hockey League rosters are like dessert after the main course. Filled right, they can add a lot of sweetness to the season. Get them wrong, and a season can collapse like a soufflé gone bad.

The fur flew after the first goal. In more ways than one. The Victoria Royals set a franchise record for most goals in a game by defeating the Kootenay Ice 10-3 before 7,006 fans at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre.

New Victoria Grizzlies goaltender Kurtis Chapman is part of a group of 19-year-old players from the metro Calgary area who have made themselves right at home in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

Eight teams will battle for two qualifying spots for the Belairdirect sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Men’s Curling Championship through this weekend’s Island playdowns at the Victoria Curling Club.