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The Victoria HarbourCats (27-7) showed why they are ranked No. 5 in the latest poll of North American summer collegiate baseball teams with a 7-3 come-from-behind win over the Bend Elks on Friday night in Oregon.

Victoria HarbourCats starter Will McAffer is headed to the West Coast League all-star game Tuesday.

Matthew Sarmento came to the University of Victoria to study and play soccer for the Vikes. He ended up heading to the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics in field hockey. He failed the fitness test for Vikes soccer.

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Victoria Shamrocks head coach Bob Heyes said, with a chuckle, his team has no choice but to go deep into the Western Lacrosse Association playoffs toward a fourth consecutive appearance in the Mann Cup national final in September.

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The road to Rio not taken has cost Liam Middleton his job. The contract of the Langford-based Canadian men鈥檚 rugby sevens team coach has not been renewed after the team failed to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Baseball is nothing if not a game of numbers. So it鈥檚 hardly surprising the Victoria HarbourCats have a mathematical formula in mind for the remainder of the West Coast League season. It鈥檚 2/3=40.

The road to Rio not taken has cost Liam Middleton his job. The contract of the Langford-based Canadian men鈥檚 rugby sevens team coach has not been renewed after the team failed to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics.

While the best in the major leagues were meeting Tuesday night in San Diego, the Victoria HarbourCats and Gresham GreyWolves were busy in Oregon with some fireworks of their own at the West Coast League level.