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The St. Andrew’s Sabres senior boys soccer team is heading to the provincial chamionship on a high note.

They’re two teams at different ends of the junior hockey spectrum, but you wouldn’t have known it on Wednesday night at Rogers Place in Edmonton.

Rod Wood, vice-president of the Victoria Junior and, now defunct, Intermediate Shamrocks, believes sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Lacrosse made the right move by eliminating the intermediate category and replacing it with two extra years of junior eligibility.

How appropriate that on a night in which it was raining cats and dogs, the ’Dawgs would make the biggest splash.

The pressure was off and Bruce Tomie responded by winning his second individual men’s title at the Vikes Shootout at Cordova Bay Golf Course on Tuesday.

Ryan Peckford and Eric Florchuk should have extra pep in their step tonight when the Victoria Royals visit the Edmonton Oil Kings at cavernous Rogers Place.

It was a rough weekend for the Victoria Grizzlies, who lost all three games on a lengthy road trip, but the team received some positive news on Tuesday as 16-year-olds Jacson Alexander and Alex Newhook were both named to represent sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½.

It was not the weekend the Victoria Grizzlies were looking for as the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League team returned home winless in all three outings following Sunday afternoon’s 5-2 loss to the Surrey Eagles.

The winning ways continued for the University of Victoria Vikes women’s soccer team on Sunday, claiming a hard-fought 1-0 win in Edmonton over the University of Alberta Pandas at Foote Field.

The 2017 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Football Conference championship will be a Battle of the Rock as the Vancouver Island Raiders of Nanaimo toppled the Okanagan Sun 15-8 in the second league semifinal on Sunday afternoon in Kelowna.