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The top Island senior girls soccer teams will vie for positions to provincials on a pair of fronts on Monday and Tuesday.

Ryder Hesjedal of Victoria slipped one placing, to 22nd overall, in the Giro d’Italia on Saturday, but not to worry. When the going gets vertical, Ryder gets going. The big mountain stages are coming up in the race, which concludes May 29 in Turin.

By rights, it should be hers. Kirsten Sweetland of Victoria looks to be on the verge of fulfilling a lifetime ambition by qualifying for the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics after injuries and illness denied her Beijing 2008 and London 2012.

This is not the way the Langford-based Canadian rugby sevens team envisioned its preparation for the last-chance Olympic qualifier for Rio, which takes place June 18-19 in Monaco.

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Royal Athletic Park will be the site of a Frisbee invasion today as the professional American Ultimate Disc League (AUDL) launches a matchup between the Vancouver Riptide and San Francisco Flame Throwers at 3 p.m.

The Victoria Highlanders suddenly find themselves undefeated. The Kitsap Pumas beat Victoria 3-0 in their United Soccer League Premier Development League (PDL) opener last weekend in Washington state.

With six days remaining before their home-opener, the Victoria Shamrocks continue to tweak and fine-tune their roster in preparation for the 2016 Western Lacrosse association season.

The Langford-based Canadian team ran into a host-nation chainsaw at the France Sevens in Paris on Friday. The French recorded a commanding 42-5 victory over sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ in the tournament opener at Stade Jean-Bouin.

A busy investiture and induction season continued unabated on Friday for two-time MVP Steve Nash, who retired from the National Basketball Association in March 2015 after 19 seasons.