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NEW WESTMINSTER 9 VICTORIA 7 (New West leads series 1-0) Not even the return of Rhys Duch was enough to get the Victoria Shamrocks off on the right foot in the Western Lacrosse Association championship series.

The Westshore Rebels’ Kent Hicks, a six-foot-four, 345-pound defensive lineman out of Robert Bateman Secondary in Abbotsford, plays against type.

Ice sports are probably the last thing on most people’s minds in mid-August. Don’t look now, however, but Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League training camps open this week. They do so with more of a youth movement this year.

His booming drives are as long as his golf pants are loud.

Head coach Bob Heyes knows his Victoria Shamrocks will be on hallowed ground tonight — the famous wooden floor — for Game 1 of the 2017 Western Lacrosse Association final against the host New Westminster Salmonbellies.

The Victoria Royals of the Western Hockey League announced the schedule for their 2017 draft, rookie, and main training camps set to take place at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre. The Royals’ training camp will open Aug.

The passengers list of the Victoria HarbourCats team bus dwindled Wednesday the further it chugged north on Interstate 5.

The storyline was about a dynasty on the brink and the heir apparent ready to supplant it.

The Corvallis Knights, named after the wife of Nike co-founder Phil Knight and main team sponsor Penny Knight, won their fifth West Coast League baseball championship Tuesday night.

As an all-star last season at both the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ high school basketball and soccer championships for St. Michaels University School, Jamison Schulz-Franco knows his way around sports.