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The University of Victoria Vikes defeated the Peninsula College Pirates from Port Angeles, Washington, 3-0 on Thursday at Centennial Stadium to open the 2016 collegiate exhibition women’s soccer season.

A pair of Victoria golfers finished as runners-up in the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Juvenile Boys’ and Girls’ Championship (for those ages 16 and under) at Chilliwack Golf and Country Club on Thursday.

Up 3-2 in their series, the Victoria Shamrocks still have two cracks to finish off the Burnaby Lakers in the Western Lacrosse Association semifinals. Pressure, the Shamrocks say, is still on the Lakers for tonight’s Game 6 at 6 p.m.

BURNABY 11 VICTORIA 6 The wound is open and the Burnaby Lakers poured salt in it on Wednesday.

Jim Rutledge admits the chance to tee it up at the 2016 Pacific Links Bear Mountain Championship will be an opportunity of a lifetime.

A journey that began at age 15 with the Victoria Volleyball Association, and on the floorboards of the Royal Oak Middle School gym, ended Wednesday for Fred Winters in Rio with a 3-0 straight-set quarter-final loss to defending Olympic champion Russi

Bob Heyes isn’t about to lament his team’s situation.

A trio of Canadians, including Victoria’s Jim Rutledge, have committed to playing in the 2016 Pacific Links Bear Mountain Championship, set for Sept. 19-25 on the Mountain Course at Bear Mountain.

It began for one in the Royal Oak Middle School gym. For others, on the Hartland trails or the roads of Central Saanich.

The Victoria HarbourCats’ record-setting 2016 baseball season was rewarded Monday by the West Coast League. Victoria established the new standard for wins in a regular season with 40 and a new record for longest winning streak with 19.