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For 12 years John and Lisa Guiney have welcomed Victoria Grizzlies players into their home, billeting out-of-town players as they look to progress their hockey careers to the university or professional levels.

The juxtaposition wasn鈥檛 lost on Marie-Philip Poulin as she watched beach volleyball from Copacabana Beach on the TV set in the foyer of Pearkes Arena. It was during the lunch break of the Future Stars girls鈥� ice hockey clinic for Island youngsters.

Maybe Victoria HarbourCats head coach Graig Merritt could apply for a job as a soothsayer once his baseball days are done: He predicted the best-of-three West Coast League North Division playoff series would be tight.

The Victoria Shamrocks were expecting a close game and they got one, out-lasting the Burnaby Lakers 9-6 on Tuesday night to draw first blood in the 2015 Western Lacrosse Association playoffs.

Victoria rowers Lindsay Jennerich and Patricia Obee brushed off the scheduling chaos in Rio to win their preliminary race Monday and advance to the semifinals in the women鈥檚 lightweight double sculls at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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The defending Mann Cup-champion Victoria Shamrocks will begin their run at a fourth-straight Western Lacrosse Association title tonight, and they鈥檒l do it against a resurgent Burnaby Lakers team.

A decision by Rugby sa国际传媒 five years ago to centralize the best sevens players from across the country in Greater Victoria was vindicated with a trip to the podium Monday at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics.

The Victoria HarbourCats defeated the Yakima Valley Pippins 11-4 on Sunday at Royal Athletic Park to set the all-time West Coast League baseball record for wins at 40, eclipsing the old standard of 39 established by the 2011 Wenatchee AppleSox.