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Minus their two top point-producers, the Victoria Grizzlies gave the league-leading Trail Smoke Eaters a run for their money on Sunday afternoon at The Q Centre.

The University of Victoria Vikes must content themselves with going into the U Sports women’s soccer national championships as the second seed out of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ West.

Two teams heading in opposite directions meet head-on at The Q Centre this afternoon at 2 as the Trail Smoke Eaters, who led the entire sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League standings prior to Saturday play, visit the Victoria Grizzlies.

VICTORIA 4 KELOWNA 2 Although the promotion was ’80s Night, the Victoria Royals came out Saturday wearing throwback jerseys patterned after those of the 1925 Stanley Cup-champion Victoria Cougars.

Matthew Phillips remembers how his dad used to watch his hockey games as a kid: “He never cheered if I scored a goal, but he did if I tracked someone down to take away the puck.

Oh my, that was definitely not what the doctor ordered. In fact, it was completely opposite, sort of like having a flu shot and getting sick the very next day.

From the pitch to the court, it was a memorable night for University of Victoria women’s sport Friday.

Brian McRae, the former Major League Baseball player entering his second year as head coach of the Victoria HarbourCats of the West Coast League, has named his coaching staff for the 2018 season at Royal Athletic Park.

They are one win away from a berth to the U Sports national championship, a position some outsiders felt the UVic Vikes women’s soccer team would never be in at the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ West regular season’s end. But that’s why they play games.

There was a time when University of Victoria and University of Brandon men’s basketball needed little introduction and games between the Vikes and Bobcats were celebrated.