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VICTORIA 4 COQUITLAM 4 The Victoria Grizzlies threw everything and the kitchen sink at Coquitlam on Friday night at The Q Centre, but couldn’t knock the Express off the tracks.

With first place and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs already locked up, there isn’t much to play for Saturday afternoon when the Westshore Rebels (7-1-1) take on the visiting Kamloops Broncos (2-7) at 4 p.m. at Westhills Stadium.

The University of Victoria Vikes hockey program has arrived, in a sense, with a scheduling breakthrough and two games against NCAA Div. 1 opponents this weekend.

Into one of the trickier portions of their schedule, the Victoria Grizzlies will try and pull a couple of rabbits out of their hats tonight and Saturday. The 5-1-1-1 Grizzlies, who lead the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

Most of the cavalry has returned and is ready to ride. Tyler Soy, Matthew Phillips and Jack Walker are all back with the Victoria Royals after stints at National Hockey League training camps.

The Belmont Bulldogs senior girls volleyball team is No. 1 with a bullet.

They’re a month away from the start of the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ West season, but the University of Victoria Vikes basketball teams will kick things into high gear this weekend when they host the annual Guy Vetrie Memorial Tournament at the CARSA Performance Gym.

VICTORIA 6 ALBERNI VALLEY 3 Heading into enemy territory, the Victoria Grizzlies were hoping to strike first at the always loud Port Alberni Weyerhaeuser Arena.

With the hoopla of the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League Showcase now over, the Victoria Grizzlies will attempt to get back to the order of business — winning hockey games.

The Victoria Grizzlies weren’t able to lock down a victory at the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League Showcase in Chilliwack over the weekend, but seem to have secured some scholarship endeavours.