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It is an arms race minus the arms. The West Coast League playoff drive is taking place with bullpens as empty as hope in Blue Jays-Land.

It was Nick Pivetta bobblehead night Monday at Royal Athletic Park, in honour of the former hometown Victoria HarbourCats thrower who is now in the majors with the Philadelphia Phillies.

Island athletes did Monday what they do with regularity at multi-sport Games — climb on to the podium. Desirae Ridenour of Cowichan Bay and Hannah Henry of Victoria won gold and silver, respectively, in the women’s triathlon race for sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

SEATTLE 9 N.Y. METS 1 SEATTLE — James Paxton wrapped up a perfect July.

Defending the podium is the hardest thing in sports. Hilary Caldwell of Victoria, the 2016 Rio Olympics bronze medallist in the women’s 200-metre backstroke, placed sixth at the 2017 FINA world aquatics championships in Budapest.

A question will come with the Queen’s Baton relay when it stops in Victoria on Monday as part of its 230,000-kilometre, 388-day trek through 71 nations and territories to the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, Australia.

OKANAGAN 19 WESTSHORE 15 The Cullen Cup sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ championship game rematch was everything junior football fans expected at the Apple Bowl in Kelowna on Saturday night. The Okanagan Suns gained revenge against the defending sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

VICTORIA 9 COWLITZ 2 Blake Hannah from UC-Davis took the win by spinning a three-hitter over six complete innings, as the Victoria HarbourCats defeated the Cowlitz Black Bears 9-2 in a WCL baseball game Saturday night.

Little League baseball holds such a peculiar place in the public’s imagination that CBC has entered into a four-year deal to broadcast the semifinals and final of the Canadian championships, beginning this year in Medicine Hat through to the 2020 nat

The Victoria HarbourCats know there is little room for error now, with the Bellingham Bells and Wenatchee AppleSox breathing down their neck in the race for the North Division’s second half pennant and West Coast League playoff spot that goes with it