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A miserable, wet and cool season put a damper on winter golf within the region, but the new Bayview Place Vikes Performance Tour finally rolled out of the gates on Monday at Royal Colwood.

It鈥檚 a long way from Baylor University to Vancouver Island, but four members of the Bears baseball team will be making the trek northward for the West Coast League season, joining the Victoria HarbourCats for the 2017 campaign.

For most of the Western Hockey League season, the Vancouver Giants have been a cure for what ails opposing teams. Not on this night.

Charity Williams never gets tired of putting on her bronze medal from the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, as she did Tuesday outside the Legislature. 鈥淵ou can see people鈥檚 faces light up. They want to know you and want to know your story,鈥� she said.

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The mumps has given hockey its share of bumps this season. The Victoria Royals and Seattle Thunderbirds could meet in the first round of the WHL playoffs, and also have something else in common. Both clubs have activated the mumps protocol.

The University of Victoria began in 1903 as Victoria College, an affiliate of McGill University.

The Bronze Baby, emblematic of Canadian women鈥檚 university basketball supremacy, has resided at the University of Victoria on nine occasions. It is headed to Laval or McGill for the first time.

KELOWNA 4 VICTORIA 3 (OT) There was ample room to spread out on the Victoria Royals bench at Prospera Place in Kelowna on Saturday. They probably could have even brought in a couple of recliner rockers.

The Camosun Chargers鈥� magical run at the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association women鈥檚 volleyball championship ran out of steam at PISE gym on Saturday night.