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UNITED STATES 52 CANADA 16 U.S. wins 80-44 on aggregate That it happened on sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Day was just an added, cruel irony.

VICTORIA 12 NANAIMO 7 Mike Triolo should come with instructions: Break glass in case of Victoria Shamrocks penalty emergency — that’s when Triolo really comes to life on the floor.

VICTORIA 2 COWLITZ 1 That was a friendly, cross-border helping hand. Helping bat, more like.

The Langford-based Canadian men’s rugby team will play its most important Test match in a generation Saturday against the United States in San Diego.

Hamburg, New York, is an unlikely place from which to spearhead a potential Victoria Shamrocks run to the 2017 Mann Cup. But the Shamrocks are suddenly a lot stronger with the addition of Joe Resetarits from that upstate town.

They are HarbourCats, which to the best of anyone’s knowledge, are mythical creatures.

Mark Calcavecchia, the 2005 Canadian Open and 1989 British Open champion, is the latest PGA Tour Champions star to commit to playing in the 2017 Pacific Links Bear Mountain Championship. Calcavecchia has won two tournaments in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

Tokyo must have felt a long way away for Sarah Chow the past year while working for the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ government and playing softball in the Hyacinth Park senior league.

The Victoria Royals, known for forwards who are small but fast and talented, picked a player in their own image Wednesday in the 2017 Canadian Hockey League import draft.

The semi-annual threat of Mann Cup lacrosse games being played at their home in September will once again force the Victoria Grizzlies on the road for most of the first month of the 2017-18 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League season.