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So goes Jason Willow, so go the Victoria Mariners. The 2017 MLB draft pick of the Baltimore Orioles, who next month plays for host sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ in the 2017 world junior championship in Thunder Bay, leads the Victoria Mariners into the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

The Centennial Stadium track has been run on by the best, but it’s now weather-beaten and in need of replacement. It will finally get a $694,000 facelift, announced Friday.

A full cast meant a fulsome 10-2 Victoria Shamrocks victory Friday night over the Coquitlam Adanacs before 2,124 fans at the Q Centre. “This is the family . . .

Brett Levis patiently answered all the questions the young players threw his way Friday morning during a Vancouver Whitecaps youth soccer clinic at Layritz Park.

Baseball can be a strange game. One night after ringing up 13 runs in victory, the Victoria HarbourCats could only bring across three in a 6-3 loss to the Yakima Valley Pippins on Thursday night at Royal Athletic Park.

In baseball terms, Eric Hedlin of Victoria is the lead-off batter for the Canadian swim team at the 2017 FINA world aquatics championships that run through July 30 in Budapest.

Attending a Victoria Shamrocks game this season at The Q Centre has been like sitting in a Broadway theatre when the dreaded announcement came that “playing the part of Willy Loman tonight will be the understudy instead of Dustin Hoffman.

The wider story sometimes takes precedence over the final result.

It was an Island sweep at the recent sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Mid-Amateur and Mid-Masters golf championships. Victoria’s Craig Doell and Parksville’s Josee Deslauriers each won both the mid-amateur and mid-master titles.

Much of a football team’s character, at least on offence, flows through its quarterback. Three pivots are under centre in the Westshore Rebels training camp, at Goudy Field in Langford, trying to be that personality pacemaker.