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Momentum is often mentioned as a deciding factor in sports. And all of it seems to be with the Burnaby Lakers in their Western Lacrosse Association semifinal playoff series against the Victoria Shamrocks.

The defending champion Westshore Rebels defeated the host Kamloops Broncos 25-21 on a touchdown by Kent Hicks with 1:25 remaining on Saturday night to win their second consecutive game and move to 2-1 in the sa国际传媒 Junior Football Conference standings.

The Victoria Shamrocks know they must not let the 鈥淐ollapse in Copeland鈥� come to haunt their Western Lacrosse Association semifinal playoff series against the Burnaby Lakers.

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Team Tomorrow is Team Terrific. Many of the Island鈥檚 future competitors in the Olympics and Commonwealth and Pan Am Games will come out of the talented young group that performed over the past two weeks in the 2017 sa国际传媒 Summer Games in Winnipeg.

Rugby Sevens can be seen as the trendy variation that has upended the established order. (Don鈥檛 look now, but three-on-three basketball will make its Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020).

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The Victoria Shamrocks looked to have one sneaker already in the Western Lacrosse Association final.

It isn鈥檛 overly hyperbolic to suggest the annual Daffodil Cup, which began in 1961, is the sort of Stanley Cup of Island auto racing. The engines rev up for the 2017 edition tonight and Saturday at Western Speedway.