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After being brought down to Earth at the Island double-A senior boy’s soccer championship, the St. Michaels University Blue Jags are ready to get back on their horses and ride into the provincial tournament at Burnaby beginning on Monday.

VICTORIA 5 REGINA 3 The Regina Pats were wondering what that strange sensation was they were feeling Saturday at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre.

VICTORIA 4 POWELL RIVER 1 Fittingly, the Victoria Grizzlies players presented their mothers with flowers prior to Friday night’s game at The Q Centre.

The enduring strength of Island high school volleyball was evident over the past two Olympic cycles with Martin Reader out of Highland in Comox competing at London 2012 and Claremont products Fred Winters and Jamie Broder at Rio 2016.

A familiar face scored sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s lone try Saturday in Bucharest. But it was amid an all too familiar storyline.

The University of Victoria Vikes (4-2) won their fourth consecutive game in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ West women’s basketball with a 74-52 victory over the MacEwan Griffins (2-4) on Saturday night in Edmonton.

Brooks and Steel sounds like a country duo. And that’s probably appropriate since they represent Regina. They are, in reality, forwards on the hottest thing going up the charts in the Western Hockey League.

On paper, it was the dreaded game before the big game. But the Victoria Grizzlies made sure they remained focused on the task at hand Friday night — beating the Island Division’s last-place team, the Alberni Valley Bulldogs.

From the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ capital to the Alberta capital, the University of Victoria Vikes swung into Edmonton to sweep the MacEwan Griffins in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ West men’s and women’s basketball games played Friday night.

Oak Bay upset the ball cart Friday night. As a result, the second- and third-ranked teams in the province will meet in the semifinals Saturday at noon in the Island AAAA high school girls’ volleyball championships.