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The Maple Ridge Burrards were off for seven days between series, but it was the Victoria Shamrocks who strangely looked rusty, losing the opening game of the Western Lacrosse Association final 11-6 to the visitors on Wednesday.

The Victoria Royals are hoping a couple of cool-hand Lukes will play a part in their future. Saskatchewan’s Luke Reid, the Royals’ top pick in the 2016 Western Hockey League bantam draft, got his first glimpse of the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ capital this week.

Dario Zanatta of Victoria, originally looking to the Vancouver Whitecaps, took a chance on the U.K. and has never regretted the gamble.

It’s going to be all Japan all the time the next four years as far as Summer Games sports are concerned.

A pair of defencemen are among a group of veteran Victoria Grizzlies in search of NCAA Division I scholarships this season.

Gordy Scutt’s final round 3-under 67 at Royal Colwood on Tuesday gave the Olympic View assistant pro his second PGA of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Championship title in three years.

The stage is set to determine who will take the last bow.

Grant Armstrong’s shrewd eye for non-obvious talent others might have missed helped the Victoria Royals win the Western Hockey League regular-season championship last season in a major surprise.

The Victoria Shamrocks are off to their fourth straight Western Lacrosse Association championship final.

Because of his Icelandic heritage, it’s the first sports question Dayne Finnson is asked these days. But, no, he isn’t much of a soccer fan, he says — his ancestral homeland’s breathless run through Euro 2016 notwithstanding.