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The Victoria Royals defeated the Kamloops Blazers 2-1 in a shootout Friday night in a potential preview of a WHL Western Conference first-round playoff matchup.

Two-time Olympian Carol Turney-Loos, described as the greatest women’s basketball player to play at the University of Victoria and one of the best ever in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, will be inducted into the UVic Sports Hall of Fame.

All things remain possible as a hectic sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ West basketball regular season hurtles toward its conclusion.

The adverse weather has claimed a weekend sporting event that would have involved about 2,000 players, coaches, managers, support staff and parents. Some of the best young players in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

Can the Breakers be broken? That is the question being asked as the playoff process begins in girls’ high school basketball with the Triple-A Lower Island championships going today in the Claremont Secondary Gym.

Hearts-signed striker Dario Zanatta of Victoria, touted as a potential future scoring threat for the senior Canadian national team, continued his rise by being named to the U-20 national soccer team.

How good is the Western Conference of the Western Hockey League? It would not be a surprise to see any of the eight eventual playoff teams in the Memorial Cup national final.

With the sting of back-to-back losses still in their memories banks, the Victoria Grizzlies were looking to make amends against the Powell River Kings in a sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League Island Division clash on Wednesday night at Hap Parker Arena.

Ken McArdle has Neil Dangerfield’s rink in solid position after Day 1 of the 2017 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Men’s Curling Championship at the Abbotsford Curling Club.

And the Victoria Royals thought the conditions were adverse outside Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre on Wednesday night. Inside was no June picnic, either, as they lost to the Seattle Thunderbirds for the ninth consecutive time.