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Riding a four-game losing skid, the UVic Vikes women鈥檚 basketball team is looking to snap out of the doldrums in Edmonton this weekend, hoping to head into the Christmas break on a high note. The 4-4 Vikes take on the 5-3 U of Alberta Pandas at 5 p.

Claire Eccles, who became the first woman to play in the West Coast League, will return to the Victoria HarbourCats for a second stint, the baseball club announced Wednesday.

The Victoria Royals kept the Western Hockey League鈥檚 most lethal line off the scoresheet over three periods, but Glenn Gawdin got free in the overtime to lead the Swift Current Broncos to a 3-2 victory Wednesday night at the Credit Union i-plex.

It was two years ago in the Dubai Sevens that Caroline Crossley of Victoria became the youngest player to don a Canadian jersey in a World Series event. She was 17.

The sa国际传媒 high school volleyball championships take on a new format for the quadruple-A senior girls, with the defending champion Belmont Bulldogs looking forward to the change.

It wasn鈥檛 exactly a goaltending clinic, nor was it a display of how to run a power play as the Victoria Grizzlies collapsed in a 7-3 thumping at the hands of the visiting Powell River Kings on Tuesday night at The Q Centre.

The Victoria Royals began their run on a four-games-in-five-night gauntlet through some tough Western Hockey League cities on Tuesday night with a setback in Moose Jaw, losing 7-4 to the league-leading Warriors in front of 3,376 fans at Mosaic Place.

Kyle Habkirk鈥檚 rink from the Victoria Curling Club earned the second of two berths available for provincials at the Junior Open Playdowns in Osoyoos over the weekend.

The Victoria Grizzlies should have plenty of momentum heading into tonight鈥檚 game against the visiting Powell River Kings at The Q Centre.

Moose Jaw, Swift Current and Medicine Hat represent the small-market heartland of the Western Hockey League. The Warriors (19-5-1), Broncos (17-5-2) and Tigers (15-9) are also darn good this season.