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A heavyweight tilt. A marquee matchup. Choose your sporting cliché. In terms of the West Coast League of baseball, this was a potential league playoff final preview featuring the respective first-half champions of the North and South Divisions.

Emma Entzminger bided her time. As the youngest member of the Canadian 2016 world championship bronze-medallist women’s team, the 20-year-old didn’t get into game action at Softball City in Surrey.

Team Tomorrow turned out to be Team Terrific over the weekend in Abbotsford. Vancouver Island-Central Coast topped the medals table at the 2016 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Summer Games that concluded with the closing ceremony Sunday.

CORVALLIS, Oregon — Nick Kahle, Roman Garcia and Andy Atwood had three hits each and Garcia drove in three runs as the Corvallis Knights beat the Victoria HarbourCats 9-2 Sunday in a West Coast League baseball game..

The torrid pace being set on golf courses by Island youth continues unabated as 15-year-old Nolan Thoroughgood of Royal Colwood and 13-year-old Akari Hayashi of Uplands swept to the respective boys’ and girls’ gold medals Saturday at the 2016 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

The Victoria Mariners are on their way to the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Premier Baseball League championship finals in Abbotsford next weekend and could be joined by the Victoria Eagles if the Eagles can manage a victory on the mainland today.

From when they began the Olympic year, last August following the Pan Am Games, the Langford-based Canadian women’s rugby sevens team has put in nearly 3,000 hours of outdoor and indoor training at Westhills Stadium and the Pacific Institute for Sport

The Corvallis Knights are what every West Coast League baseball franchise aspires to be, or should. Sustainability and facility are not issues. The team’s namesake is sponsor Penny Knight, wife of Nike co-founder Phil Knight.

J.C. Boice could probably sell sand in the desert, he’s that convincing. The Westshore Rebels head football coach certainly sold his sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

The road to South Williamsport, and the Little League World Series, continues at Chris Zuehlke Park in North Vancouver with the 2016 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ championship for 11- and 12-year-olds.