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Jake DuVall impressed with his sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Amateur victory last month and now has his sights set on the 113th playing of the Canadian Men’s Amateur Golf Championship which began Monday at the Toronto Golf Club and Islington Golf Club in Ontario.

It was a Game 3 the Burnaby Lakers, trailing 2-0 in the best-of-seven series, knew they couldn’t afford to lose. And they didn’t.

A whiplash weekend of hair-pin turns has ended with the Victoria HarbourCats playoff-bound as the second-half champions of the North Division of the West Coast League.

sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ The Victoria HarbourCats wasted an opportunity to lock up a second-straight West Coast League playoff berth Sunday afternoon in Port Angeles, but they’re not done yet.

The traditional turnover day, when the first-week athletes clear out and the second-week athletes move in, arrived Saturday at the 2017 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Summer Games in Winnipeg. The first week was nothing short of a triumph for Island athletes.

Eight recommendations, to be implemented at the Rugby sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Centre of Excellence in Langford, have come out of a review following sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s decisive World Cup qualifying loss to the U.S.

As a former Houston Astros pitching prospect, Anthony Pluta tried to get into the heads of hitters. That was metaphorically, of course. Now he does it literally.

WESTSHORE 27 VANCOUVER ISLAND 25 The Westshore Rebels used a strong second half to get into the win column in the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Football Conference standings on Saturday afternoon, defeating the Vancouver Island Raiders 27-25 at Caledonia Park.

VICTORIA 9 BURNABY 6 Victoria leads series 2-0 A sloppy opening 20 minutes failed to deter the Victoria Shamrocks, who bounced back from a 5-1 deficit to win 9-6 against the visiting Burnaby Lakers at The Q Centre on Saturday night.

VICTORIA 6 PORT ANGELES 4 For a sport considered so leisurely and pastoral, it is amazing how seat-of-the pants hectic things can get near the end of a baseball season.