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The Vancouver Island Raiders’ season came to a screaming halt Sunday afternoon as the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Football Conference champions were dumped 48-0 by the Saskatoon Hilltops in a Canadian Junior Football League national semifinal.

The highly successful soccer season continues for coach Tracy David’s UVic Vikes women’s program.

Running great Diane Cummins, archer Wanda Allan Parsons and wheelchair racer and paracyclist Karen March rolled or marched into Summer Olympic or Paralympic ceremonies from Montreal in 1976 to Athens in 2004.

CHILLIWACK 3 VICTORIA 0 The Chilliwack Chiefs are really starting to like their trips across the water to Victoria. Prior to Saturday night, the last time the Chiefs were at The Q Centre they ended the Victoria Grizzlies’ season in the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

VICTORIA 6 VANCOUVER 5 Houston they have a problem.

With apologies to Dinah Washington, but what a difference a day makes, just 24 little hours.

The Victoria Grizzlies are finally back home for an extended period of time, but they’re not getting too comfortable because first up on their four-game homestand is a very familiar opponent.

Shockers don’t come much bigger than this in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ West men’s basketball.

There will be a rare Tyler Benson sighting tonight on Blanshard Street.

All the memories will come flooding back tonight for former 800-metre great Diane Cummins when she is enshrined into the Victoria Sports Hall of Fame with the Class of 2017 during the induction ceremonies in the Westin Bear Mountain ballroom.